Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stale Code

Re:Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stal... by bobthepanda on Sunday June 21, 2020 @03:20PM (#23594582)

This would assume that all types of activity are evenly distributed across all users. In practice, I've seen many things where a small, small subset of users are responsible for a disproportionate amount of volume, and the odds of all of them being in the 5% allocation of "old" code is higher than you'd think.

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Re:Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stal... by ramraj07 on Sunday June 21, 2020 @09:24PM (#23596687)

Assuming your rollout is truly randomised, I find it highly unlikely that an absolutely random 5% of your users (randomised everytime as well) are going to cause your fall. It's still possible, but I'm not giving up on an elegant idea for that reason.

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Re:Piranha: An Open Source Tool to Automatically Delete Stal... by bobthepanda on Sunday June 21, 2020 @10:57PM (#23597057)

It's certainly unlikely, but Murphy's Law can get you sooner or later. Best hope that hot potato doesn't land in your lap at a bad time.

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