Re:Postgres scaling advice
by vlovich123 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:20PM
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Set up your docker file to be part of your CI so that your binary blobs are built from source with regularity? That’s typically the solution I’ve seen work well. Manually maintained stuff (especially for stuff that may not be the thing everyone is primarily doing) generally doesn’t scale well without automation (speaking as someone who’s seen organizations grow). This is also true of “getting started” guides. Can’t tell you how much maintenance and run time I’ve saved converting those wikis to Python scripts.
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Yes, of course. That would be ideal. That's what we do for everything we can control.
But as someone in the IT dept., far too often you get some container that either was built by someone who long left the company or an external consultant who got paid to never return. Sourcecode is usually unavailable, and if it is available, will only build on that one laptop that the consultant used. The IT department gets left with the instruction "run it, it was expensive" and "no, you don't get any budget to fix it". That results in the aforementioned containers of doom...
Yes, I'm bitter and cynical. Yes, I'm leaving as soon as I can :)