Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy" - Dmitry Kudryavtsev
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Following the CrowdStrike outage, I've stumbled upon an articles that claims that developers should have consequences. Do they?
  • @Geyser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14•9 months ago

    Was there a process in place to prevent the deployment that caused this?

    No: blame the higher up

    Yes: blame the dev that didn’t follow process

    Of course there are other intricacies, like if they did follow a process and perform testing, and this still occurred, but in general…

    • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆English
      32•9 months ago

      If they didn’t follow a procedure, it is still a culture/management issue that should follow the distribution of wealth 1:1 in the company.

        • @erwan@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11•9 months ago

          I hate to break it to you, but companies with actual safe rails to deploying to production do exist.

          And when things go wrong, it’s never the responsibility on a single dev. It’s also the dev who reviewed the PR. It’s also the dev who buddy approved the deploy. It’s the whole department that didn’t have enough coverage in CI.