Some things may never get fixed
summary
Tales about concrete failures and fixes: corporate timekeeping goes months without a working $15,000 rack NTP appliance, thousands of machines drift because stratum servers lean on one region, and a leap‑second smear becomes a political battle not a tech fix. One engineer buys a $300 GPS‑backed NTP puck and wires time from a desk to production. Other stories: identical root passwords in management consoles, easy grub exploits, and incident reports that never trigger remediation — things that get built, deployed, and often never properly fixed.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 2:09Nobody is hired to break stuff
- 3:26Someone might be hired to be "the fixer"
- 5:34Things that broke
- 8:16Unappreciated fixers
- 9:53Repeat offenders
- 11:09People move on
- 12:13Stuff that broke (the "war stories")
- 12:24Corporate timekeeping
- 38:41Bonus story Open Sourcing root access to the fleet
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