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It can still get tested and smoke tested before deploying directly to production. If you cant trust your automated tests and smoke tests then you're setting you
by dekz 11y ago
It can still get tested and smoke tested before deploying directly to production. If you cant trust your automated tests and smoke tests then you're setting yourself up to fail.
- officialchicken 11y agoVery true, but what's the ROI for full automation? If a typical 2-3 click deploy generously takes an hour, and they do 40 per year... then it would take 1 year to break even presuming that a fully-automated system could be built and deployed in 1 man-week. If the deploy takes 10 mins, can it be built in less than 1 day? Ignoring the development time for a fully automated system, I think the real question is, "how does a rollback and unscheduled downtime impact the ROI due to unforeseen problems?" because it will happen, eventually.
- brianwawok 11y agoWell how many mistakes do they make with those 4 clicks? That's part of the point of automation - remove chances for humans to flub.
- reddit_clone 11y agoWhy downvote this? This is a valid point. Automation is not just for saving time. It is also preventing the system from human errors. People make errors due to fatigue, inattention etc. performing even simple tasks.