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Who should support and maintain development infrastructure?
I am interested to know what other peoples' experiences are with managing development infrastructure are. I am talking about things like the build server, the central git repo etc etc. Any ...
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What does a node.js web application's setup look like on a real production server?
Being new to node js magic world, i'm wondering how does a web application's setup look like on a real production server?
So far all tutorials, create the js file that is started from a console...and ...
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How Often and for What Reasons Should a Programmer Get Paged When on Call? [closed]
I'm asking this question because I happen to be on call this week, supporting an application that sits in the middle of a service-oriented architecture. So far, it's been averaging about 35-40 pages ...
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Considerations on which Java version to run in Production
Some people run the bleeding edge of technologies - updating the day that something is updated. In production, this isn't as appropriate.
Researching about if the current (Java 7) version is ready ...
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Developing on a production server
Today I got yelled at for developing an application on a production server. Quote, "developing on a production server is not acceptable - ever!"
Here is the situation.
I set up a development ...
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Shipping my first class library. Any gotchas I need to be aware of?
I'm a Web Developer about to unlock the "First Class Library Published" achievement in my career and I'm sweating bullets (literally - I was up all night stressing out). I'd love to tap the ...
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Is it a good idea to install Mercurial on your server and hg pull to deploy?
I've just started at a new job this past month and looks like they have NO source control for their code. They are relying on the backups their hosting provider takes for them.
After talking a bit I ...
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Understanding the problem when things break in production
Scenario:
You push to production
The push broke multiple things
That same build did not break qa or dev
As a developer, you don't have prod access.
There is lots of pressure from above to get ...
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Optimization as a branch: is that a thing?
My company has highly optimized scientific application which has become so big and complicated that new versions are literally taking t = infinity to produce. (E.G. I have an email which ...
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Why is it evil to run selects from a prod server?
I'm basically looking for arguments to persuade the internal "consultants" at work as the following are not working:
What happens if you do a Cartesian join and crash the server?
You don't need to ...
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How can I automate production deployments without experiencing extreme anxiety?
At our shop we use SVN for source control and CruiseControl for CI on handling automatic builds and deployments to our development, test, and integration environments.
This all works smoothly however ...
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Ideas about how to prevent malicious code to go into production especially in case of SAAS environments
As nowadays SAAS is becoming popular way of developing and deploying the applications, and I have just started working at a company providing SaaS solution for payment authorization services.
Since ...
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Term for Production Rollback
The firm I work at keeps a copy of the compiled source code on production.
So basically on our Production server, we have two folders:
ProductionServer\SourceCode\
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Do you run production boxes with logs completely turned off?
We are internally debating in our team if we should continue to run our production boxes with logs turned off completely and just log errors and exceptions with log rotations.
I want to know how ...
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Difference Between Software Development and Production?
In a typical SDLC there isn't much mention of the word production or development or the distinction between the two.These seem more of a real time , industrial driven concepts . I have come across ...
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Why do we call it “production”?
A coworker was wondering this today: "Why is it that in our industry 'production' means 'final, deliverable product'? You know, like if a movie is 'in production', it means they're currently filming ...
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What should be on your “Going Live Day” checklist?
Aside from the technical specifics, what should be on your checklist for when you go live with a program? Are there last minute things you can do to make a piece of software go into production ...
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PHP Project deployment
I have a PHP project that I'm currently developing.
I'm nearly finished and I was wondering what is the best practice when it comes to beta testing and deploying updates/changes to the production ...
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How do you keep cool when production system goes down? [closed]
This has happened to most of us...
You come to work one day. Everything seems normal - the sun is shining, birds are chirping, but you notice a couple of weird things on your way to work that remind ...
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Manuals - How Up To Date?
If you have a product that has been in the market for a long time, but it is still in active development daily - how often should the manuals be updated? If your users are constantly updated to the ...
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Define “production-ready”
I have been curious about this for a while. What exactly is meant by "production-ready" or its variants? Most recently I was looking for information about sqlite and found this thread, where many ...
