If you haven't broken a critical system at least once, you haven't written enough production code. Everyone appreciates the other 99.993207% of the time where the system functions flawlessly. I look forward to reading the postmortem.
What a respectable comment. It’s so easy to just gripe about downtime. Stripe is one of those comments that does take uptime seriously but alas as long as humans are at the helm there’s always room for mistakes. As long as we learn from them.
In fairness, I know lots of people who have broken critical systems without having written a line of code. The screwdriver my friend dropped onto a server motherboard (point side down) is my favourite personal example, but there are plenty of others.