The way most banks deploy software is downright scary. It usually involves a lot of manual steps running DDL in some enterprise database to create and change lo

The way most banks deploy software is downright scary. It usually involves a lot of manual steps running DDL in some enterprise database to create and change lots of views and stored procedures. Those DDL scripts were developed against some shared testing and staging databases that usually have crucial differences not only in the data but also in the structure. Nothing is automated, no easy way to restore stuff. People generating Java EAR files in an IDE and Ops people copying them to servers. Lots of enterprise software that is barely scriptable and need long sessions of point click and type in some awkward web UI. And let’s not even talk when there are mainframes involved. Things working the first time would be the real news here.