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[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 188 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

See? They CAN replace junior developers.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What idiot is giving junior developers write access to prod?

[–] generaldenmark@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

I had sudo on our prod server on day one of my first job after uni. Now I knew my way around a database and Linux, so I never fucked with anything I wasn’t supposed to.

Our webapp was Python Django, enabling hotfixes in prod. This was a weekly or biweekly occurrence.

Updating delivery times for holidays involved setting a magic variable in prod.

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