On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@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