Questions tagged [production]

The tag has no usage guidance.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
44 votes
6 answers
16k views

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 ...
joshjs's user avatar
  • 551
20 votes
7 answers
9k views

Manager wants a combined development & production environment

I work in a small programming team supporting a larger organisation. This year our manager has decided we are going to use Oracle Apex technologies to handle the vast majority of our company data. ...
Anon's user avatar
  • 229
15 votes
7 answers
6k views

Why shouldn't you develop on production database? [duplicate]

I need help with organizing my arguments for why it's MADNESS to develop against production data. Backstory: I started working here six months ago and I noticed we're developing directly against ...
user avatar
10 votes
6 answers
410 views

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 ...
Engineer2021's user avatar
  • 3,228
35 votes
7 answers
29k views

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 ...
user avatar
25 votes
6 answers
5k views

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 ...
bitcycle's user avatar
  • 617
14 votes
1 answer
2k views

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 ...
JohnDoDo's user avatar
  • 2,319
3 votes
1 answer
633 views

Having Staging and Production environments with different network virtualization

Current Setup We have a staging environment which used NFV (be precious NSX) to configure the network (Software load balancer and software firewall) The Production environment has used the ...
saji159's user avatar
  • 141
2 votes
4 answers
1k views

Deployments, another unsolved problem in software engineering [closed]

Why is it so hard to package and deploy software? I want to understand what exactly is the inherent complexity of creating self-contained binaries? Currently it seems that golang is the only game in ...
user avatar