What's the major outage you've been part of?

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Published on 2010-05-28T00:44:14Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 0:53 UTC
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Outages are some of the things we try to avoid but they're inevitable: they happen (very rarely, we hope) and we have to know how to deal with them (and learn from them).

So, what's the major outage you've been part of? How did you and your team deal with it? What have you learned for the future? Please share your thoughts :)

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