A cloud engineer walked into a bar and – no joke – ended up having to migrate a datacenter
The budget was minimal, FedEx was the bottleneck, and DNS was of course the source of trouble
Visiting a second bar on the same night can often be a dangerous move. When Dave Bradley did it, he ended up having to move a datacenter, on a two-week deadline, without extra budget.
Bradley is a senior cloud engineer at healthcare services company Vizient and visited a bar while winding down after an off-site company meeting. After enjoying a decent stint of merriment with colleagues from the company’s tech team, Bradley decided to call it a night - but on his way out, he spotted his boss in a second watering hole, conversing with other even more senior execs.
He decided to stop in and stayed a while before the second group decided their night was over. As Bradley walked out, one of the senior suits asked, “Could we shut down the...
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