It's pretty easy to miss "basics of a good design" like a cron job job when you are also missing actual basics like source control or any release process whatso

It's pretty easy to miss "basics of a good design" like a cron job job when you are also missing actual basics like source control or any release process whatsoever [1]. I understand the Wired article to mean that for awhile they were actually editing source code on production servers in some cases. This really is a case of a company managing assets well in excess of the limitations of its experience or ability, literally a trading card company that found themselves operating as a bank. The thing I don't know was whether their customers had adequate notice that mtgox was grossly incompetent. Smart people have told me they did, but at the same time, the list of services I use where I have personally bothered to check if they use source control and have a test environment is not very long. [1] http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/03/bitcoin-exchange/ http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/03/bitcoin-exchang...