What we learned after I deleted the main production database by mistake

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“Well, f**k…” I thought to myself while I waited for my boss to answer my call. I’m sure that all he wanted to hear on a Friday morning was one of his senior leaders just manually deleted by mistake a main backoffice database.

The phone’s calling ringtone sounded like my career’s dying heartbeat on a hospital heart monitor. In those moments…