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Rebuilding our Support Tech architecture
- juped 7y ago>the popular hacker mentality of “move fast and break things.” This is really slanderous to the hacker ethos - this is really more of a startup-cult slogan. :)
- cheschire 7y agoIt’s the motto of people who don’t mind being fired a lot. https://xkcd.com/1428/ https://xkcd.com/1428/
- tomrod 7y agoAlso, R&D. You break production, you're breaking the business machine.
- freehunter 7y agoEveryone has a test server. Some people are just lucky enough to have a separate production server.
- enitihas 7y agoI think this used to(still is?), the Facebook engineering moto, and was proudly written on their blog posts.
- dgellow 7y agoThat doesn't seem to be the case anymore, since around 2014: https://mashable.com/2014/04/30/facebooks-new-mantra-move-fast-with-stability/ https://mashable.com/2014/04/30/facebooks-new-mantra-move-fa... > "We used to have this famous mantra ... and the idea here is that as developers, moving quickly is so important that we were even willing to tolerate a few bugs in order to do it," Zuckerberg said. "What we realized over time is that it wasn't helping us to move faster because we had to slow down to fix these bugs and it wasn't improving our speed."
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- CaptainZapp 7y agoSeems they tried exactly that with the Boeing 737 MAX. What could ever go wrong with that?
- apalmer 7y agoI found the database design portion of this to border on... if just felt like they were trying to model the most basic of design decisions as some kind of technical achievement. seemed to me they were trying to garner tech 'street cred' without something to be worthy of credit, not sure i understood.