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It’s 2:07 am, I am sleeping when the loud alarm noise of my pager rings in the room. I wake up in seconds, my eyes are dry, and my back is sore. I take a look at my phone. The screen is blinking with an error message, “Database: CPU is reaching 80%, higher than the 70% threshold.” Looks bad. Something is probably hammering our database. What I didn’t know yet, is that it will go worse and my night will be short…