In early September, The Matrix Foundation homeserver went down.

I'm extremely proud of our SRE team. They had a Disaster Recovery Plan and monthly exercises to apply it, resulting in no data loss despite a 24h outage.

I've learned a lot about how to properly backup/restore a Postgres database when writing this post with SREs. We also learned how to better prevent and be resilient to human error.

Thanks all for the hugops during the outage!

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Post-mortem of the September 2 outage

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Matthew Hodgson (matrix.org)}

Do you like security? Do you like privacy? Cryptography? Do you like working for a public benefit non-profit instead of an investor-beholden corporation?

Let's Encrypt is hiring for someone to join our SRE team and help run the largest Certificate Authority in the world! Come work with me and some of the most wonderful folks in tech, to make the web a better place.

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Let's Encrypt Software Engineer (SRE)

Posted: September 29, 2022 Start Date: January 2023 Position Status: Open Location: Remote within US Compensation: $140k USD, 100% 401k Match, Excellent Insurance We’re making HTTPS easier for developers to use, we’re doing it at scale, and we need y…

^{Internet Security Research Group}