This Developer's Life 2.0.2 - Pressure

In this second episode of the second season of This Developer's Life we talk to a group of Top Gun developers: the StackOverflow team, about the day their database melted - and how the team responded.

• Geoff Dalgas - developer on StackOverflow
• Sam Saffron - developer and data geek at StackOverflow
• Jeff Atwood ,Mr. CodingHorror and co-founder of StackOverflow

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