How I Fired Myself

Re:How I Fired Myself by desireco42 on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:16PM (#5293461)

I was working two years ago in very successful, billion dollar startup. All developers had production access, but then, if you didn't know what you were doing, you would not be working there. Also, we didn't routinely access production and when we did, mostly for support issues on which we rotated, we did through 'rails console' environment that enforced business rules. In theory you could delete all data, but only in theory, and even then, we could restore it with minimal downtime.

I think it is obvious that CEO/CTO are the one to be held responsible here.

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Re:How I Fired Myself by desireco42 on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @12:22PM (#5293501)

To add to this. I work again in billion dollar company (I think, they are really big0, I don't work on their main property, I have production db access. This is something senior developers definitely should have access to, but also with great privilege comes appropriate responsibility.

I routinely run reports, and sometimes I would wipe spammer out that passed our filters etc.

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