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Re:What I Learned Managing Site Reliability for Some of the ... by Thaxll on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @06:24PM (#14037809)
Documentation is really important especially for systems that will run for years, you will get new employee that have no ideas about how things work.
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Re:What I Learned Managing Site Reliability for Some of the ... by CodeWriter23 on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @01:27PM (#14043819)
In my experience, trusting five year old documentation is a huge risk in and of itself. Having been in the position you put forth, you can use the documentation as a road map of the developer or architect's intent at a certain point in the past, but you have to start reading code in case it was changed and the documentation was not updated.
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Re:What I Learned Managing Site Reliability for Some of the ... by zwischenzug on Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:11AM (#14048808)
Which is why maintaining it is a critical investment.
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Re:What I Learned Managing Site Reliability for Some of the ... by CodeWriter23 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:22PM (#14056580)
How do you know it is up to date? The only thing you can assume is it isn't.
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Re:What I Learned Managing Site Reliability for Some of the ... by zwischenzug on Monday April 10, 2017 @06:18AM (#14077268)
If the process is correct, and properly followed, then it must be up to date.
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