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Don’t bite or embarrass the hand that provides you make-work...

Seriously they probably tested it and it worked in theory, just not in practice and now they fix it for reals.

These are the same people who recently published a white paper on how they guarantee zero downtime: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/overview?topic=overview-zero-down...

The idea that they could even get to this point probably seemed unfathomable. It does to me.

While that is a solid advice, still it raises the question: is there such organization which corrects itself by firing the incompetent and promoting the competent instead (the "toldyouso" guy in this case)?

Or we just simply accept and making it the norm that even the lowest level of organizational governance is corrupt?

I am serious about this, because how people perceive their own rights, their own roles, their own status, their own influence and their organization's wrongdoing will influence the attitude in the long run against each and every organization in society in my opinion.

I know that I was blowing the question out of proportion, but it bugged me to ask anyway.

I particularly like The Gervais Principle as an explanation of why incompetents are frequently the ones making corporate governance decisions. It's satire, but I think there are elements of truth in it.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

I guess if their DR firedrill assumed their failover router hosting the status page could never go down it would pass, but come on IBM.

Seems a common mistake. If I remember right, AWS stumbled over their status page depending on S3 a few years back

I view this as growing pains that everyone has to learn the hard way. The bigger question is will they learn the lesson and how will they fix this for the next time?

(Because there is always a next time)

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