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All Green, Baby
Monday, 9:00 AM. Every dashboard green, every service humming. Grams is, by his own assessment, a god.

Monday, 9:00 AM. Every dashboard green, every service humming. Grams is, by his own assessment, a god.

9:01 AM. The pager screams. us-east-1 is down. Beer, meet ceiling.

Incident response, fuelled entirely by lager. The snow buddies pitch in. It does not help.

On the bridge call with forty engineers and one idea between them: have you tried turning it off and on again?

Region restored, champagne deployed. Grams survives to bender another day.