Recently Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a massive outage. For those of you not familiar with AWS, it is the server farm that keeps not just Amazon running, but Netflix and thousands of other web services. It was knocked out for most of a day, not by a hacker, but by a comma.
The service was knocked out by one misplace comma in hundreds of thousands of lines of code. This takes the old adage, “the devil is in the details,” to new heights. One comma caused the outage of multiple businesses costing not just what would have been earned but the time to bring the servers back up and the time to find one comma.
The lesson applies to any task. Paying attention to the details as you complete your tasks will save time and money. Even if it costs slightly more and takes a little longer at the time, avoiding the catastrophic consequences are well worth it.
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