alt Hacker News> The other side of this is building safety nets. Takes ~10min to revert a bad deploy.
Does it? Reverting a bad deploy is not only about running the previous version.
Did you mess up data? Did you take actions on third party services that that need to be reverted? Did it have legal reprecursions?
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DrewADesign • today at 1:55 PM
Having data model changes be a part of regular deployments would give me persistent heartburn.
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jamiemallers • today at 9:04 AM
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> Does it? Reverting a bad deploy is not only about running the previous version.
It does. We’ve tried. No it’s not as easy as running the previous version.
I have written about this: https://swizec.com/blog/why-software-only-moves-forward/