The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things

Re:The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things by bigpeet on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:23AM (#22663857)

My current company seems to apply the following variation of the motto:

Move slow, break things anyway, disable tests to hide it.

Yeah, I've quit.

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Re:The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things by karatestomp on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:54AM (#22664100)

Having the wrong things broken is a great way to move slow. Heavily manual (so, insufficiently documented) deployment processes, difficult, manual correctness testing, slow feedback loops in development, that kind of thing. Poor rollback planning.

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Re:The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things by bigpeet on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:03AM (#22664174)

Pretty much spot-on.

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Re:The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things by commandlinefan on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:59AM (#22664146)

> disable tests

Ha, amateurs - my last company never wrote any tests in the first place.

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Re:The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things by thedance on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:04AM (#22664190)

Hey looks like we both worked there! Break everything and be paralyzed, that was our motto.

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