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This guy stuck his head in the sand back in 99. Every shop I worked in has decent change management, builds handled automatically by CI, restricted access to p
by nullwasamistake 7y ago
This guy stuck his head in the sand back in 99.
Every shop I worked in has decent change management, builds handled automatically by CI, restricted access to production db's. His particular point of "anyone being allowed to pop in a CD" has never been true. Even back in 2002 you would at least have machines in a locked room.
DBA as a job is dead because modern db's don't need dedicated employees to maintain.
Super high reliability is not needed for servers because everyone load balances several instances. Often in different data centers. DB's are an exception but often have hot standbys for the same purpose.
Mainframes are dead. At least 10x cost for the same performance. The world has moved on
- icedchai 7y agoOh, it's been true. It sounds like you've never worked in a wild-west type of environment. I have. I once worked at a company (2008-ish) where all the developers had a VPN direct into production. The production database had the same password as dev. "Accidents" would occasionally happen were a developer might spin up an app connecting direct to production, then start processing production batch processes. And having a "locked room" doesn't mean anything when you have remote access.