What really smokes my rhino these days are guys who should know better that keep insisting on adding more and more fine grained configuration to our provisioning and deployment processes - We need more moving parts! We need total control! We need a binary editor so we can change byte 935 from 0110 to 0111 within dickcheney-Version666.jar in test888 because it's Tuesday at noon and my aunt has bursitis in her shoulder!
Yes, and our people can handle this so well! God forbid we be allowed to create a small set of complete machine images with all apps, configs, data, everything - type install and *nothing more*. No 'runbook' or 'manifest' with a bazillion manual steps and two hail Marys. If anything needs to change, you change it in source control and create a new build (which kicks off your unit tests, deploys the image, and then kicks off the functional, integration, and performance/scalability tests). All without any more dumbitude than automation can have. Granted, automation can certainly have dumbitude if its creator has it, but those pesky automated unit tests will kick in and raise the dumbitude detector flags in the form of red bars and if they miss it, the integration tests catch it, and the functional tests after that. At least it gives us a fighting chance.
I'm not bitter - and it is Friday. Amen.
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