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I have been thinking about this and there are 4 messages I could receive that would illicit a similar response. I would ask if the system is down and if it is up, I have 2 people that would be forced to take the day off. Mainly because they never read any documentation throughly and can't follow instructions.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 316 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"good morning, I'm about to destroy the backend" is exactly the energy I'd welcome from a colleague frankly.

I think the outage that followed as we fumbled to replace it would probably be cheaper than the ongoing maintenance after a few months

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 150 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I've seen plenty of back ends that needed to be destroyed.

[–] Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 94 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Are we still talking about code?

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, you guys were talking about code?

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Used properly, repairing pretty much anything with a sledgehammer will ensure it'll never break again.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 134 points 1 week ago (7 children)

What is this magical job where two typos land you a day off, no questions asked?

[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 week ago
[–] tooclose104@lemmy.ca 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A typo in software development or other shell based work could completely ass womp a system in ways that could lose a company lots of money.

Oopsies on prod systems, even with an outage window, can really fuck shit up. Seemingly small mistakes can quickly snowball into systemwide outages.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 65 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's wild to me how some places I've worked are like locked down, all the infrastructure is in terraform or whatever and can be deployed immediately... and other places are like "ssh into prod with the credentials from confluence, edit the config in vim, and paste the new code into a new file"

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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In my last job we called that "optimizing", after a colleague (who usually only did frontent work) used the opportunity when everyone else was on vacation to implement a few show-stopping bugs in the backend and put "optimized backend code" in the commit message. He did the same thing a few months later during the next vacation period, which really solidified the joke.

[–] bier@feddit.nl 47 points 1 week ago

Worked with a guy that would always say I'm refactoring X and it would usually give us weird issues and bugs. So after a while the team started calling it refucktoring

[–] mattreb@feddit.it 20 points 1 week ago

that's exactly why we have mandatory code reviews now...

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Do it and I destroy your backend.

Have you dropping tables like you're Mankind in 1999.

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[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Narrator: The deployment proved that it wasn’t a typo after all.

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[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 41 points 1 week ago

I'll remember to keep that for the first nice day in Spring.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Today"is a Friday before public holidays

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

December 23rd

Never trust a man deploying with a Santa hat on

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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 32 points 1 week ago (26 children)

WhatsApp for business communications? Jesus

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Whatapp is for business, and signal is for official government communication

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Works better than Teams.

Probably has better privacy and confidentiality options too.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Anyone else find that praying hands emoji very condescending when used like that? I would destroy the backend DB if they tried to send me that!

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (19 children)

I worked with someone who used them as "thank you".

it was....a challenge.

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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 18 points 1 week ago

"Alright, I need all of the leads on this call to confirm: go, or no go."

"Go."

"Go."

"Let 'er rip!"

"Hold up--"

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Confused the "deploy to PROD" with "deploy to staging" again huh?

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh, look at Mr Many Environments here, he's too good to test on prod like the rest of us do.

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