How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley

Re:How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley by hibikir on Thursday June 09, 2016 @06:49PM (#11872953)

I have seen it, but in very traditional orgs, where system administrators and developers were in very different realms, and mostly communicate through a ticketing system. Similar things between DBAs and programmers in that environment. Why are the queries slow in production?

So it's not an uncommon problem to have wherever there's no clear line of responsibility, and no real shared ownership. It's only unrealistic in the sense that, if you have those kind of problems in a company as small as Pied Piper, I'd expect the product to not work at all.

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Re:How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley by rconti on Thursday June 09, 2016 @07:36PM (#11873200)

Developers often make assumptions about hardware in their code, and then will complain when the hardware they're given doesn't match what they anticipated.

Even if it doesn't actually matter for performance reasons, they expected things to be one way, and want the environment to adapt to match their expectations, even if they might be expecting a wholly un-maintainable environment.

And I'm sure it works exactly the other way, too. The developer doesn't understand why the environment isn't what they expect, or isn't like the lab, or whatever.

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Re:How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley by kuhzaam on Thursday June 09, 2016 @08:29PM (#11873421)

Wait, so it's "Not uncommon"... so then it's..... ok got it.

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