For us, one of our junior Devs managed to wipe out all environments, all datacenters for one of our Elastic instances. They got handed a task to modify an index. The Dev Lead and Sr. Devs were 'too busy' and she stack overflowed how to do it and it was rubber stamped. What she did worked - but it wipes out all the existing documents when she dropped and recreated the indexes. Issue was it was a large enough collectio…
Nice story. Your dev lead/senior engineer should have never been "too busy" for letting someone do that on a first day unsupervised
She had been around for around a year when that happened. The 'first day' story linked by Reddit was someone else. It was her first time modifying an index on ES, however. I include the scrum master and PO to be complicit, as resources were tight and they still pushed for the work to be completed. This one bit us hard. The team was broken up and moved on. She was the only one I personally asked to have as a direct report.