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In the first weeks after founding Friendly, I made a big mistake. Due to a careless oversight, I deleted numerous important files on what was then our only live server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw letters and numbers rattling down the screen like in Matrix. All files that had just been deleted. By the time I could stop the process, basic system files were gone. The server was broken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All of our customer accounts at the time were offline. On a Sunday evening. I have rarely felt so bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After I got over the initial shock, I wrote a message to Joey Keller<\/a>. I had recruited him as a freelancer on Upwork a few weeks earlier. To my surprise, Joey was there immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desperately we tried to get the server up and running again. Unsuccessfully. When the tiredness became too much, we gave up. I’m amazed that I was able to sleep at all that night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next day at 6am Joey was already back. It went on for a few more hours, but during the day we were able to reset the server and restore the customer data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly thereafter, I hired Joey on a 100% permanent basis. That was in June 2020<\/a>. “Hire for attitude, train for skills,” as the saying goes. Joey had already proven his skills. And his attitude during this crisis had completely convinced me of him. I have never regretted it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over a year later, we finally met live for the first time! Because of the Corona pandemic, this trip had been delayed again and again. A week ago I was able to visit Joey in his hometown Budapest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To just have a beer together. To take trips with Joey’s family. To talk shop. Quite normally, actually. At least before Corona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let’s hope that the situation continues to improve and we can all have more social encounters again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.S. Of course we have learned from our mistakes. Today our servers run on a redundant infrastructure with multiple daily backups \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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