{"UUID":"9332c0d7-bec4-427c-8689-267bdc5840fa","URL":"https://www.joyent.com/blog/postmortem-for-outage-of-us-east-1-may-27-2014","StartTime":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","EndTime":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z","Categories":["postmortem"],"Company":"Joyent","Product":"","Description":"An operator used a tool with lax input validation to reboot a small number of servers undergoing maintenance but forgot to type `-n` and instead rebooted all servers in the datacenter. This caused an outage that lasted 2.5 hours, rebooted all customer instances, put tremendous load on DHCP/TFTP PXE boot systems, and left API systems requiring manual intervention. See also [Bryan Cantrill's talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE)."}