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> thou shalt not live-edit prod Even then, there's some nuance. During an outage, cowboy coding can get you back up and running much faster.
by hansvm 2y ago
> thou shalt not live-edit prod
Even then, there's some nuance. During an outage, cowboy coding can get you back up and running much faster.
- kstrauser 2y agoYeah, depending on the particulars of a system. If you're at a startup and report to the CTO, that might be perfectly fine in an emergency. At a company with a few million users, almost certainly not. There's a spectrum of possibilities.
- hansvm 2y agoIn an emergency, that sort of thing even happens at Google (more for their smaller services, and almost always in the form of auto-LGTM hot-fixes bypassing the normal checks rather than actual live-editing of a script or binary, but even that latter thing happens occasionally). There are checks and controls, but an emergency for a billion users is a big deal.