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> A lot of people, developers especially, don't perform well under pressure (stress reduces cognitive ability). A lot of places value people who work well unde
by ori_b 10y ago
> A lot of people, developers especially, don't perform well under pressure (stress reduces cognitive ability).
A lot of places value people who work well under pressure. (A bad push taking down all the server's I'd stressful)
- vonmoltke 10y agoMeaning a lot of places have shitty processes and architecture and try to compensate by hiring people that fit their broken system. Case in point: having an architecture so fragile that a bad push is capable of taking down all your servers.
- sokoloff 10y agoTrivial to have a breaking DB change or a software push where the only part of the app that works is the little part that tells the load balancer, "yep, I'm alive and healthy; send some traffic my way". There are probably way more successful (100-million to couple billion dollar revenue) companies that can be brought offline with a bad push than can't.
- ori_b 10y agoOr a load balancer push that ignores the 'yep, I'm alive and healthy' bit and sends traffic anyways.
- EpicEng 10y agoOh please. Even the best systems will have issues, and there will always be high pressure situations, regardless of the competency of management. It shouldn't be a way of life, but it's simply not practical to expect easy sailing at all times.