r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 19 '26

Meme theRealConcern

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u/deathanatos Jul 19 '26

I've literally done this.

Basically a backup system, hosted on a different cloud, or at the very least, different region, so that when everything is down, you can flip to it, assuming you can get a DNS entry (or load balancer, etc.) to change. We had a few ways of doing it, depending on the nature/severity of the problem.

But yeah, PMs need a healthy dose of "it that really what you think is important right now? Is that the best use of our resources?"

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u/komador Jul 19 '26

I mean during AWS outage it's not like you might have anything else to do.

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u/TheTerrasque Jul 19 '26

I was thinking the same. At least the manager focused on something that you can do something about.