The Website is Down #1: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude

Josh Weinberg · 2.8M views · 2009 · 10:24

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Satire & parodyWeb developmentCloud, DevOps & reliabilitycomedy

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN treats it as a beloved piece of tech-workplace humor, quoted whenever an outage or sales-versus-engineering friction comes up.

What it is

A comedy video in which a salesperson demands that a web developer fix a down website, with the two talking past each other. It won a Webby award.

Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2019 to 2024.

What Hacker News said

Recommends pmoriarty · 2019-12 · on “The Bastard Operator From Hell (1999)”

Something along similar lines that I really enjoyed was the "Website is Down" series of videos, starting with "Sales Guy vs Web Dude": [this video]