Re:The Failure of the iPad
by hinkley on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:06PM
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I'm not talking about backing stuff up. I'm talking about not keeping data of business value on single points of failure in the first place. Those hardware failures weren't resolved in 3-4 hours by restoring backups, they were resolved by fetching and setting up things from systems of record. Version control. Artifactory. Runbooks in a Wiki.
If this data is useful, why am I bogarting it? I should be sharing it, as soon as possible. If some ears are too sensitive to see rough drafts, we can use obscurity or permissions to control premature messaging.
It's the same argument as Bus Numbers, or for DVCS, or feature branches. I don't want days or weeks worth of work hanging out on some engineer's system, which can get wet or take a tumble down the stairs on the way to a meeting or stay home for a week while down with the flu.
Backups are for people with a bus number of 1 (ie, mismanaged teams or personal projects).
If this data is useful, why am I bogarting it? I should be sharing it, as soon as possible. If some ears are too sensitive to see rough drafts, we can use obscurity or permissions to control premature messaging.
It's the same argument as Bus Numbers, or for DVCS, or feature branches. I don't want days or weeks worth of work hanging out on some engineer's system, which can get wet or take a tumble down the stairs on the way to a meeting or stay home for a week while down with the flu.
Backups are for people with a bus number of 1 (ie, mismanaged teams or personal projects).