7. 7! This is by far the one that resonates with me the most. But for some reasons SREs think the opposite is true: the longest it takes to get to prod, the better. What a pain.
I'm an SRE and currently on a mission to get code into prod as fast and safely as possible. Instead of painting such a broad, generic negative picture, maybe articulate an actual position to argue against.
You are right -- I was referring specifically to SREs in FAANG, which enforce a mandate of maximum 1 deploy to prod per day -- in some case even 1 per week, or less.
To be honest, I think there is a threshold, perhaps expressed in terms of risk of losing money, at which it is more beneficial to delay deploys.
But applying the same deployment rules to a multi-billion-dollar revenue machine and to a smaller project with perhaps a few thousand weekly users is ridiculous.
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7. 7! This is by far the one that resonates with me the most. But for some reasons SREs think the opposite is true: the longest it takes to get to prod, the better. What a pain.
I'm an SRE and currently on a mission to get code into prod as fast and safely as possible. Instead of painting such a broad, generic negative picture, maybe articulate an actual position to argue against.
You are right -- I was referring specifically to SREs in FAANG, which enforce a mandate of maximum 1 deploy to prod per day -- in some case even 1 per week, or less.
To be honest, I think there is a threshold, perhaps expressed in terms of risk of losing money, at which it is more beneficial to delay deploys.
But applying the same deployment rules to a multi-billion-dollar revenue machine and to a smaller project with perhaps a few thousand weekly users is ridiculous.
Thanks for the clarification, I can see how that might be frustrating.