On 7 March 2014 22:39, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
With all due respect; hell, yes, development comes in second to operational stability. This is not disrespecting development, which is extremely important by any measure. But we're running a top-10 worldwide website, a key worldwide information resource for humanity as a whole. We cannot cripple development to try and maximize stability, but stability has to be priority
- Any large website's teams will have the same attitude.
I've had operational outages reach the top of everyone's news source/feed/newspaper/broadcast. This is an exceptionally unpleasant experience.
Speaking as a sysadmin with "it's gotta be up!" responsibility, I wholeheartedly concur.
But then this is an argument for "branch live 24 hours before deploy time", not "halt development". People can generally cope with two branches for 24 hours.
- d.