I accidentally deleted Levels.fyi's entire back end server stack last week

3 unsnap_biceps 5 7/8/2025, 7:54:31 AM old.reddit.com ↗

Comments (5)

pchangr · 3h ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20250707213532/https://www.reddi...

dovys · 7h ago

From past experience, CloudFormation is full of footguns that if you don't take time to understand them, you'll loose a foot and often in production. Most notably, when a rollback kicks in there is no way to stop it. And it largely locks you out until it's finished.

Metalnem · 7h ago

Kudos for publishing this, but why is it on Reddit instead of the Levels.fyi blog (https://www.levels.fyi/blog/)?

unsnap_biceps · 7h ago

Just to be clear, I have no affiliation with levels.fyi, so I have no idea why they decided to post on Reddit rather than their blog. I just thought it was a interesting post to share.

Metalnem · 7h ago

Thanks for posting this—it's super interesting! I was just curious why the author of the Reddit post didn't publish it on their own blog, since it's definitely worth preserving there.