The seven deadly sins of software deployment
The seven deadly sins of software deployment
Posted Aug 11, 2013 1:24 UTC (Sun) by pr1268 (guest, #24648)In reply to: The seven deadly sins of software deployment by jameslivingston
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Just when I thought I'd been cured of deployment nightmares, your last bullet just set me back a ways. ;-)
"Deployment" servers don't belong under someone's desk, because the overnight cleaning crew might unplug it when it makes funny noises. Spoken from personal experience1.
1 We were deploying remotely from home at 11 PM, and while the cleaning crew was emptying wastebaskets, right when they got to our sysadmin's cubicle, the computer's disk drives started churning loudly (in an otherwise very quiet office), and perhaps the janitor thought it was possessed or something, so she unplugged it. Needless to say our release had to be rescheduled. Fortunately the sysadmin later convinced the guy holding the purse strings to cough up the $$$ for a real deployment server.