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awesome_dudelast Monday at 1:05 AM2 repliesview on HN

Unless using your own dogfood prevents you from fixing it if it breaks

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/05/facebook-...

I have a memory that Slack fell into this trap too (I could be wrong)


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hiddencostlast Monday at 3:11 AM

Facebook notoriously had to cut open the doors to one of their data centers.

Google SRE still keeps IRC available in case of an emergency.

antonvslast Monday at 2:31 AM

Now I’m imagining the folks at Slack gritting their teeth and using MS Teams