I had a call last night from a friend working in a swiss startup. In first few seconds I thought he had been thrown out of home by his wife. And then he told me that the startup had lost all their data during last hour.

I was helping them on building the database and here it came in the middle of the night. We had to rule out piracy to come down to the fact that it was Django framework which did that. We were able to use the MySQL logs to extract some datas and finally got back the site running.

I’m still flabbergasted because it’s one of the best working team I’ve met. All the dudes there are very good professional and highly skilled. And yet error might still pop out of nowhere.

But I also have to see that team even after a full day of work was still able to react coldly in the wee hours. I’m so impressed.