Chapter 1
Harry Potter pulled up Slack. "Hey, I have a quick 2-line CR please take a look. Thanks! 🙏" Harry laid back into his bed, starring at the ceiling. Okay, it's been long enough - he sat back up. Still no response. He pulled up his chat window with the new hire, Miles. "Hey can you take a look?" A response! "Hi Harry, I'll trade you ;). I just need one more approval on this one." Harry 👀 reacted the comment to let Miles know he was taking a look. He then got out of bed and mixed himself an Athletic Greens and did some dips. He was so weak that it crossed the line from embarrassing to confusing. He got back in bed and pulled up his laptop and scrolled through Mile's commit. It'd been approved by the team's senior dev. It was pretty long. Too soon to approve it. Harry got up. Went to the bathroom and took a shit. He returned to bed, approved the change, and sent Miles a 🚀.
Harry fumed. "What do you mean the service is working as intended? If you use over 164 gb of state it fails and becomes an unrecoverable. The official Flunk documentation straight-up says to not use the configuration you're using in production." "Yes, but our other users don't use that much storage. It wouldn't make sense to re-design our service to handle an edge case." Harry forced himself to speak calmly. "Okay, we can circle back to fixing the general case. But we're aligned on needing to mitigate the resource limit for LunchBox service, right? By Q4?" Harry's door crashed open. A crazed giant with a pink umbrella climbed in. "You're a wizard Harry!"