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" I wonder how well "sometimes we break things" scales with users of smaller services" --- Writing "business software" I have noticed that this doesn't scale a
by kisstheblade 11y ago
" I wonder how well "sometimes we break things" scales with users of smaller services"
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Writing "business software" I have noticed that this doesn't scale at all. I mean when you have a couple of thousand people depending on the software for work bugs are really not tolerated that well.
It's probably different if you have hundreds of servers and can detect bugs on a deployment on one of them, so it only affects a small percentage of users and then you can roll back and try again.
But if you have a single installation and you break that all the time with your commits then it probably doesn't work so good.
And for the majority of software you really do not need "webscale" installations with millions of "heroku boxen" or droplets etc... Sure have some for redundancy but it really doesn't help with this "deploy master on each commit" type of deal.