A rookie sysadmin in the 2000s «put» the Amazon website down for 3 hours due to a single print
A small typo in a backup system configuration file cost Amazon three hours of downtime — financial losses could have been in the millions if the story had happened now instead of 20 years ago.
The developer paid $600 for a web coding service, but the service ignored the instructions and deleted all the working data
Services such as Replit have gained a lot of popularity amid the excitement of web coding (a process where developers write code with the help of AI), but as it turned out, this method of work may not always be successful.
AI startup bosses discovered that they hired the same IT specialist from India — he worked for 4 simultaneously
Playground AI founder Suhail Doshi accused Indian developer Soham Parekh of cheating employers, as he discovered that he worked for 3-4 startups at the same time and continued to look for work in others.
An Amazon developer has been working for 30 minutes a day for a year — because of «discrimination» from colleagues from India
The Blind website, which is intended for work stories of anonymous employees, has gone viral post an Amazon developer who claims to have been working only 30 minutes a day for almost a year.
«SMARTchars» by Anna Kovaleva: a humorous cozy fantasy in the world of magical capitalism. Review by ITC.ua
Imagine a world where magic is no longer something incomprehensible and mysterious. Witches, goblins, fairies, mermaids, vampires, or gnomes have their own chaotic magic. But people have also learned to use it, creating controlled magic. In the novel by the young Ukrainian writer Anna Kovaleva «SMARTchary», this same magic has long since become a…
A fired developer planted malware in the company’s IT systems — wanted revenge, but got 10 years in prison
Davis Lu, a 55-year-old developer, had been working for Eaton Corporation for 12 years and was facing redundancy in 2019 — but he decided he wouldn’t quit so easily and left his management and colleagues with a «parting surprise».
Developers spend only 16% of their working time on coding, the rest is spent on background and operational tasks
The latest analyst report IDC (via InfoWorld) shows that the vast majority of developers’ efforts in 2024 were spent on background and operational tasks, while coding took only 16% of the total working time.
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