Nine minutes of downtime, and everything we changed after
Forty people in the Loft on a Tuesday, for an evening about the migration that went long. Three engineers read out what actually happened — the lock, the nine minutes, the two hours of arguing about whether to roll back — and then the room took over, which is the part that always runs late.
What people were building
- Backend & APIs
- Data engineering
- Infra & DevOps
- RAG & search
- Security
Who showed up
Lakshmi, Suhas, Manav, Farah, Ritika, Vivek, Sudhir, Chetan, Aryan, Prakash, Neel, Sneha
Three people left with a plan for their own migration and one left with a co-author for the postmortem. #15 is on the calendar; Suhas has agreed to twelve minutes on connection pools, with one graph and no slides.