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Re:HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users by mdeeks on Thursday June 17, 2021 @11:27PM (#27547068)
Or they ran a suite of integration tests against prod as a way to verify a release was working correctly.
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Re:HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users by sahkopoyta on Friday June 18, 2021 @04:54AM (#27548570)
but... why would you do that? production is not for that one
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Re:HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users by kortilla on Friday June 18, 2021 @05:10AM (#27548648)
If you don’t test against prod your CD pipeline is missing a critical step.
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Re:HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users by bpicolo on Friday June 18, 2021 @07:49AM (#27549401)
In some systems the cost of writing and maintaining stubbed or alternate versions of things you don’t want hit by tests in prod can be pretty overbearing. Good SLOs can serve the same purpose as well for that sort of flow
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