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The culture is don't make changes at any cost. As a result you don't make many changes, and as a result you're bad at them. Modern technology companies make to
by UK-Al05 7y ago
The culture is don't make changes at any cost. As a result you don't make many changes, and as a result you're bad at them.
Modern technology companies make tons of changes all of the time. As a result they become good at them.
Looking at the reports they learned EXACTLY the wrong lessons. It's not to make fewer changes, it's to become good at changes.
- xgb84j 7y agoIt's also the risk distribution of one large vs. many small changes that heavily favors many small changes.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago> Modern technology companies make tons of changes all of the time. As a result they become good at them. Really? That hasn't been my experience. Nearly every time some moderately large update to any modern software goes out it seems to break a bunch things. What it doesn't break it usually just ditches entirely.
- UK-Al05 7y agoThe trick is not to have large updates... Move a bit at time.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoModern tech companies can't even seem to do relatively small updates without fucking them up. Just look at Windows Update for fuck sake. I think modern developers just make a whole lot of bullshit excuses for why they are crap at their job.
- jyounker 7y agoThose generally aren't what are considered to be small updates. Organizations doing small updates to are doing them multiple times a day. (e.g. FANGs) My experience is those is that those lessons (e.g. the need for extensive automatic testing) are learned the hard way.
- hoffs 7y ago> small updates > Just look at Windows Update for fuck sake. Yup, those updates that change the operating system that is run on billion of devices in extremely varying hardware and configurations. Very simple.