It was 11:47 PM on a Friday. The sacred time when no sane DevOps engineer dares to deploy. But Wolfy wasn't sane—he was on-call.
The critical bug had been discovered at 11:32 PM. A memory leak in the payment processing service. The fix was ready. The deployment window was... right now. And outside his window, the full moon was rising.
Wolfy felt his ears twitch. His tail started wagging uncontrollably. "Not now," he muttered, staring at his Kubernetes dashboard. "Not during a deploy."
But the moon doesn't care about your deployment schedule.
11:54 PM. His fingers were getting furrier. The keyboard was becoming difficult to type on. His tail knocked over a coffee mug. Three monitors displayed red alerts. The CEO was in the Slack channel asking for updates.
11:58 PM. Full transformation complete. Wolfy was now 100% wolf, sitting at his desk in his home office, wearing his favorite hoodie that conveniently had a tail hole.
With furry paws, he tried to type the deployment command: kubectl apply -f payment-fix.yaml
What came out: kjhsadflkjh qwpepouqwr-alkjsdhf.yzxcvml
"AWOOOOOO!" Wolfy howled in frustration. His neighbors' dogs started barking in response.
But then something magical happened. As Wolfy howled, he noticed something on his secondary monitor—the error logs. The pattern of the memory leak... it looked exactly like a pattern he'd seen before, but couldn't remember where.
His enhanced wolf senses kicked in. The pattern recognition that makes wolves such good hunters suddenly made him see the bug clearly: it wasn't a memory leak at all. It was a connection pool that wasn't being released!
With his nose (now excellent at tracking), he sniffed through the codebase. There! The connection handler in the legacy payment module. Someone had commented out the cleanup function during a "temporary debug session" six months ago.
Wolfy used his voice-to-text feature (thankfully still functional through the howling):
His automated CI/CD pipeline (which he'd wisely trained to understand various forms of input, including desperate howls) sprang into action.
12:03 AM. The fix deployed. The memory usage dropped to normal. The payment system recovered. The CEO sent a 🎉 emoji in Slack.
By 12:15 AM, the moon had passed enough for Wolfy to regain his ability to type properly. He sent a quick message:
The CEO replied: "Whatever you need, Wolfy. You're a legend."
If only they knew just how literally legendary.