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Operations & education

Teaching plots with Gapminder data

Software Carpentry’s lesson reads Gapminder country data and displays labeled GDP time-series and scatter plots. It shows table transposition, legends and file export, alongside learner exercises and accessibility guidance.

Published bySoftware Carpentry / The Carpentries

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Operations & education

Testing recovery assumptions after GitLab’s database outage

GitLab’s postmortem reconstructs its January 2017 production-database outage, failed backup paths, and recovery from an earlier snapshot. It documents unrecoverable changes and traces follow-up work to monitoring, recovery testing, runbooks and operational ownership.

Published byGitLab

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Operations & education

Coordinating GitHub’s database incident recovery

GitHub’s report traces an October 2018 network partition through database failover, inconsistent replicas, recovery and delayed background processing. The timeline explains why responders prioritized data integrity and why early recovery estimates proved unreliable.

Published byJason Warner / GitHub

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