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DoD applications break all the time though! Yes, even weapons consoles! I served on a submarine whose fire control system would literally crash and reboot if
by mpyne 5y ago
DoD applications break all the time though!
Yes, even weapons consoles! I served on a submarine whose fire control system would literally crash and reboot if we encountered a situation that was especially frequent for the class of boat I was on. We worked around it, like the users always do, but please do not confuse 'DoD unique requirements' with 'Etsy can't do this'.
> You can't do the same thing with a weapons platform control module. You need to test the hell out of it and know for certain it works, in every possible edge case. Releases to production are heavily gated for a very good reason.
Do you really think Etsy doesn't run tests?
Let me tell you as someone who has run reactor restart procedures a hundred times on a real live submarine, really under the water when the reactor was scrammed: the best way to get good at something is to do it a lot. Whether that's starting up a reactor, or deploying to production.