Our entire customer database went down at 3am and I spent sixteen hours straight rebuilding it from backups that were three days old and now I cannot stop checking my phone every ten minutes to make sure nothing else is broken.
More people experience this than they realize.
The illusion of technological control has shattered, leaving behind compulsive vigilance as a futile attempt to prevent the unpreventable.
“Where Are You with Cloud computing and distributed everything?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.