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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

We already have nice things, and other reasons not to write in-house ops tools




hammer and bent nails

When I was an ops consultant, I had the "great fortune" of seeing the dark underbelly of many companies in a relatively short period of time. Such fortune was exceptionally pronounced on one client engagement where I became the maintainer of an in-house deployment tool that had bloated to touch nearly every piece of infrastructure—despite lacking documentation and testing. Dismayed at the impossible task of maintaining this beast while tackling the real work of improving the product, I began reviewing my old client projects and probing my ops community for their strategies.


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Author: vishuzdelishuz
Published at: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 03:00:00 -0400

Credits: https://www.opensource.com

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