Comment by pixl97
Companies: "your testing is costing us thousands of dollars"
Devs: "So how much does an a few hours of outages cost again?"
Companies: "your testing is costing us thousands of dollars"
Devs: "So how much does an a few hours of outages cost again?"
Wow. Ignoring the proximate cause of leaving that code in there, imagine being the poor schmuck that forgets to deploy a code update to 1 of 8 servers, causing $440 million in damages, basically destroying a company overnight. It's so far outside of comprehension at that scale.
In at least one case, a test routine activated in production created a terrible loss
https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/06/project-failure-case-...