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    • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      It was more than one mistake. Where was the QA, the staged rollout, the CI? It brought unto question how competent this company is to be a dominant player in such a critical market.

      • 1984@lemmy.today
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        3 months ago

        I work in that space and I’ve been consulting for many tech companies. It’s always a mess behind the scenes. Many of them don’t have ci/cd or testing environments. It’s kind of funny because the public image is always excellent. :)

        Even Amazon and those big tech champions are running devops into the ground. This is public knowledge at this point…