The Accidental DBA

Charity Majors

2016 charity.wtf

As cited in DDIA

Charity Majors. "The Accidental DBA." charity.wtf, October 2016. Archived at perma.cc/6ANP-ARB6

How the page describes itself

The Accidental DBA - by Charity Majors - charity.wtf

This morning there was yet another comment thread on hacker news about Yet Another outage involving MongoDB and data loss, this time by some company called “CleverTap”.

From the page's own metadata at charity.wtf, 2026-08-29.

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