The Databricks Data Engineer
The Databricks incident where the most senior engineer never touched the keyboard
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Thursday, just after two in the afternoon. The first message doesn't come from an alert, it comes from a person in revenue operations: the biggest region jumped overnight and nobody sold anything new. Nobody answers.
The engineer who owns the nightly Lakeflow job finds it in the run history. An overnight failure, a restart before anyone was awake, a window of orders written a second time under…