27 Feb
2014
27 Feb
'14
4:05 p.m.
On 2/27/14, 15:52 , Joe Abley wrote:
This is not any kind of sensible answer to the original question, but the general approach “give ops people a shell on a box with a rancid repository, encourage them to write scripts that do stuff” has the potential to cause all kinds of good things to happen faster than the time taken to organise a conference call to discuss requirements gathering for a “production” system.
+1000. And that applies equally to the backend. I have yet to meet a fancy, integrated, database-driven configuration management system that can beat a bunch of flat files and a few perl scripts. Hackability of a system can be a definite virtue here. -e