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The premise of this article is just too bizarre for me - even the most inexperienced software engineer today surely can see the fallacy of claiming a SQL databa
by giobox 8y ago
The premise of this article is just too bizarre for me - even the most inexperienced software engineer today surely can see the fallacy of claiming a SQL database prevents use of DevOps style practices.
Either the author A. Met a crazy person, or B. Invented the anecdote for sake of what they beilieved to be a snappy title.
- onemoresoop 8y agoAbsolutely B to sell the article
- ColinDabritz 8y agoThere are a lot of crazy people in industry, unfortunately. Not as much at the big flashy tech startups or places you hear about in the news, but there are still plenty of 'work a day' businesses in corners of industry that do not have expertise in these areas that absolutely should. I helped my current employer make this transition and it was similar to the description in the article. Controlling database change in source was foreign to them.
- hobs 8y agocontext: I work as a DBA. It is a bizarre premise, and its alive and well at an insane amount of shops today. When I walked in the door at my last gig(and a few others), they were hand running all deployments, and often manually troubleshooting in production when it fucked up because they didn't have a QA environment.
- ianamartin 8y agoEveryone has a QA environment. Some people have separate production environments.
- dvtrn 8y agoYou and I may be defining "everyone" differently.
- Falling3 8y agoWhat the parent was getting at is if you don't have an environment devoted to QA specifically, your production environment is your QA environment.
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- enraged_camel 8y agoI think you might have missed the joke...
- BerislavLopac 8y agoNo, it's the "QA environment" that you define differently.
- emptyfile 8y agoI'm stealing this quote.