We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead

Re:We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead by smacktoward on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:16PM (#22612937)

The one thing all long-lived systems have in common: nobody ever intended them to be long-lived systems.

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Re:We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead by jedberg on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:26AM (#22613618)

The quick and dirty Perl deployment system I built at reddit lasted nine years. Five years after I left.

I definitely never intend it to last that long.

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Re:We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead by meddlepal on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @12:39AM (#22613680)

Even better is when a long-dead system is suddenly resurrected and repurposed for another project.

I had a friend at a company I left tell me they were un-mothballing a cancelled platform (killed at the time by an unfortunate acquisition) and deployment system I built several years ago because it was needed again. The whole thing was pretty janky because it was barely past prototype but fairly functional.

I wished him good luck and told him to find a new job, because there be dragons. He took the advice eventually, but I did hear they got it up and running again, with some pain. Apparently it is out there chugging along doing its thing once again.

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Re:We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead by smacktoward on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:48AM (#22617929)

My father wrote a dBase application forty years ago that, to his amazement, is still in use in some places today.

Inertia is a hell of a force.

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Re:We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead by twhitmore on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:10AM (#22626365)

It probably has more digits for the primary key than the MS bug tracker originally mentioned. Sigh.

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Re:We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead by jnothing on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:57AM (#22626974)

so reddit used a perl script for deployment until 2017?

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Re:We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead by mitchty on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @10:46PM (#22613104)

There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.

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