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Lemmy, what are some of your "oh shit" work stories? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Always use feature flags for risky work! It would have been broken for a lot longer if I didn’t add one and they had to re-deploy the site. The site was continuously pushed all day, but building and deploying could take 45+ mins

This reminds me of the old saying: everyone has a test environment. Some people are lucky enough to have a separate production environment, too.