SuperiorOne@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the worst IT setup you have seen at a company?English
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3 months agoI was a backend developer for a startup company where:
- Windows servers without any firewall and security hardening.
- Docker swarm without WSL. We had to use 4 GB Windows base images for 50MB web apps.
- MSSQL without any replication and backups.
- Redis installed on Windows via 3rd-party tool that looked like a 2010 era keygen generator.
- A malware exploited the Redis * what a surprise * and kept killing processes to mine crypto on CPU…
- VPS provider forgot to activate new Windows Server on production and it kept restart for every 30 minutes until I checked the logs and notified them about the missing license.
I left there after 6 months.
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