I remember when Avicii died. I hadn’t worked in Omni for long, but was already getting stuck in resolving site reliability issues. I was out at a bar, and one by one, people would pick up their phone and get notifications from different news sites. Omni hit the largest traffic spike in it’s history up til then. Everyone was reading the news, and the work we did in our normal day-to-day meant that when a news story that mattered to people broke, our website did not break. A sense of sadness spread throughout the bar, but also everyone collectively remembering the good times they had listening to his music. We wanted to know more, what had happened and why? Our news sites, including Omni, were updating the story as quickly as the information flowed.
Why I love working in the news industry
Why I love working in the news industry
Why I love working in the news industry
I remember when Avicii died. I hadn’t worked in Omni for long, but was already getting stuck in resolving site reliability issues. I was out at a bar, and one by one, people would pick up their phone and get notifications from different news sites. Omni hit the largest traffic spike in it’s history up til then. Everyone was reading the news, and the work we did in our normal day-to-day meant that when a news story that mattered to people broke, our website did not break. A sense of sadness spread throughout the bar, but also everyone collectively remembering the good times they had listening to his music. We wanted to know more, what had happened and why? Our news sites, including Omni, were updating the story as quickly as the information flowed.