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StevePerkins
on July 20, 2016
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Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem
I'm surprised that a developer was able to fix StackOverflow without being able to look up the error message on StackOverflow.
yaakov
on July 20, 2016
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Well, StackOverflow devs are able to cheat and load up the site on their local machine if they want to
bboreham
on July 20, 2016
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Anyone can download the underlying data and look at it on their local machine.
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
mevile
on July 20, 2016
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I'm not sure I like the idea of being able to connect to a prod db from a dev instance, but whatever floats your boat.
jsmeaton
on July 21, 2016
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I doubt they'd allow that either - but database exports are a thing or they could just query the database or elasticsearch themselves.
progval
on July 20, 2016
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There are public dumps of Stack Overflow's database.
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
flukus
on July 21, 2016
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Who says they have to? The can just restore a recent backup.
gnahckire
on July 20, 2016
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hah! The catch 22
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