The Sounds of Silence: Lessons From an API Outage with Paul Zaich - RUBY 652

549.842 - 576.111 Paul Zaich

This particular issue most likely could not have been caught by an automated test because it was so... so outside of the norm of what we expected the data to look like. We had, of course, unit tests for everything that we were running and we had request specs as well. We did not have an end-to-end environment set up for a staging environment where you could run these tests end-to-end.