Naming conventions

Today’s outage was brought you by having the same API token replicated in several places. Of course someone forgot about that place that runs only once a week, on a Tuesday, on a job that doesn’t alert if it fails.

Naming things is hard, always been, always will be.

But, the name doesn’t matter.

Next time, ask yourself: maybe we already have another copy of this token somewhere else?

Then you won’t need to be visiting several places to update all copies. Because, truth be told, you won’t.