On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think this entire thing was a big failure in basic
software development
and systems administration. If MobileFrontend is so tightly coupled with
the desktop login form, that is a problem with MobileFrontend. In addition,
the fact that a practically random code change was launched into production
an hour later without so much as a test... That's the kind of thing that
gets people fired at other companies.
At shitty companies maybe.
Things break. You do a post-mortem and track the things that lead to an
outage and try to make sure it doesn't break again, ideally by adding
automated tests, if possible.
- Ryan