Questions tagged [production]
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Should every service have its staging environment?
I'm trying to break down my dockerized monolith into a few services that can be deployed independently.
Right now, I have a development environment, a staging environment and a production environment. ...
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Best ways to deal with unexpected bugs in already published npm packages
I'm working on an npm package, and I'm kind of new to this. I published version 0.1.0, but when I did, I saw that there was a bug that broke the entire package. I do not think that it is right to make ...
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Is a good practice to have multiple databases running in the same machine in production?
So I am developing my own DBMS as a resume project, but I am so deep now on this that I am even considering in the future to release it as an open source project and receive feedback from the ...
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How to reuse production code - for writing supporting tools?
A little history - skip to the TL;DR if you so wish to.
So I have an UWP application written in C++ that utilizes V8 and have synthetic module which allows calling native methods from the embedded JS ...
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Outsourcing The MVP development
our company wants to outsource the development of MVP. Since it is my first project as a product manager, I am expecting
story map
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Technical specifications i.e. language, database, DevOps & ...
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When to update neural network model in production?
I have a trained neural network about to go into production, and am wondering about when to update it with new data.
Say, if the "Similar questions" banner when asking a question is ...
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Is it wise to locally debugging a solution with a framework version that differs from production's?
A small, neglected project has recently been reported by users as having time out errors and some object reference exceptions. As I am a recent replacement for a developer who was responsible for this ...
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Setup pipeline to analyze data stored in web app DB
Background:
So there is a (Ruby) web app with a production Postgres DB (hosted in the cloud)
I would like to run some machine learning algorithms in a Python setting on the production data and (...
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Running automation tests in production
Although many people understand that even if we have the same setup for TEST and UAT environments as we have for PROD, there're still a lot of reasons why it makes sense to run smoke tests in ...
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Debugging code in production?
I've come across a problem that doesn't occur in our development environment or test environment, but does occur in our production environment.
Obviously, this environment is pretty locked down, and ...
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How to Gain full Confidence in Pull Request builds
Having confidence means Pull Request builds (in Jenkins) will finally allow you to merge the code after a Pull request builds successfully and is reviewed. You're 100% confident that it can go into ...
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Why are web applications said to be in "production" when in reality they are in "release" or "published"? [duplicate]
The definition of production seems to contradict what web developers consider an application in production to be. Why is the term in release or published not used instead? I have been in professional ...
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How to divert IP traffic of 1 site to test new code before deploying
We have a number of IoT devices that communicate over TCP/IP to a server. Once connected, the server can then talk to the device, get data or send down commands.
The server accepts incoming ...
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Having Staging and Production environments with different network virtualization
Current Setup
We have a staging environment which used NFV (be precious NSX)
to configure the network (Software load balancer and software
firewall)
The Production environment has used the ...
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What are the reasons to use docker in your software development process if you're not using it in production?
Docker has a lot of potential to solve problems in my workplace in a large team (100) of software developers and it's use to solve problems in my workplace. This includes:
Having a cluster of Docker ...
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Anything wrong with having aliases on a production server?
On my local server, I create aliases like these to speed up my work:
alias bashrc='vi ~/.bashrc;source ~/.bashrc;echo bashrc has been sourced'
alias bashprofile='vi ~/.bash_profile;source ~/....
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Best practice to test clustered production system
Say you have a big bloat of enterprise software and for every customer a different setup in terms of amount of appservers, search cluster size, webservers, database, loadbalancers and application-...
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Git structure on production server
So I want to add our git repo to the server so that we can pull in the latest changes from the master branch and easily update the live sites via SSH.
I don't want changes tracked by Git on the live ...
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How to "model" shortest/longest processing time first on machines in parallel and series
I'm not sure if I am in the right place to ask this question. Please tell me if I'm not. I have the following problem:
I have a production process, where a product first has to be produced, it is ...
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What should be taken into consideration when creating a Sku framework?
I have to design a Stock-Keeping Unit (SKU) for my downloaded products and I am looking for any advice on how to choose a standard.
More specifically, I would like to know:
Are there any character ...
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Are there any rule-based programming language that are not considered production systems?
I am trying to learn the difference between a production system and a rule-based system because it seems to me that they are the same thing basically. I know that both refer to programs (system) that ...
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Manager wants a combined development & production environment
I work in a small programming team supporting a larger organisation. This year our manager has decided we are going to use Oracle Apex technologies to handle the vast majority of our company data.
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should QA do their testing twice, once on staging and then again on prod?
the QA team should ideally do their testing on an environment that almost exactly matches the prod env (to minimize uncaught bugs that arise due to setting differences).
If that's true, does the QA ...
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From a software development lifecycle perspective, is duck-typing a benefit or a problem?
Statically-typed languages such as Java afford the benefit of compile-time checking of types - you are guaranteed that an object is of a given type, so:
there is no need to spend time and resources ...
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iOS: How to switch between prod and non prod REST end points
A noob iOS dev question: How do iOS developers develop their app with non prod REST URL endpoints while then using a prod REST URL endpoint for actual use by customers?
I'm not aware of a way you ...
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Is it possible to parse my grammar with multi-line productions without backtracking?
I'm playing around with creating a parser in PHP for my own flavor of BNF, to match strings against grammar in this BNF variant. It's still a work in progress and subject to change (I may even end up ...
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How to manage image uploads?
Earlier, when images were to be added to staging/production, they were committed to the git repository and our deploy script used to take care of uploading the images to CDN (S3 in our case).
But as ...
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Best way to develop new features as well as fix any bugs for a web system on Windows [closed]
I'm a one-man band and I have a contract with a client to develop and maintain a web-based system that is relied upon. This is the first project of this size and type that I have done for anyone else ...
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Should Write-Debug statements be left in production PowerShell code?
This is one of my functions I have in a module:
Function Get-DatabaseUser
{
[CmdletBinding()]
Param()
Write-Verbose 'Getting database...'
$Database = Get-Database
Write-Debug('...
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Compiling vs pre-built binaries on production machine?
I referred Compiling vs using pre-built binaries performance?. The post talks about performance and opportunities for optimization.
My question is about reliability.
I built both python and ...
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verify a defect is a production defect or not
As a QA person, I always believe that a defect should have all the steps needed for anyone fixing it to be able to reproduce it.
however, is it crazy to think that every defect QA opens need to be ...
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Microservices and production uptime [closed]
I have a question for people who implemented microservices in large enterprises.
There are obviously huge amount of benefits to microservices (comparatively to monolith architecture).
However, there ...
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Is there an industry standard term for a build which uses the production API, but is specifically for internal testing? [closed]
I'm working on clearing up our build processes of a PhoneGap app we're developing for iOS and Android, and I want to develop a concise naming scheme for our different build types.
Here's what I'm ...
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How do you differentiate software between TEST and PROD environments?
We have a TEST and PROD environment. TEST and PROD are nearly identical, and obviously software first ends up in TEST before getting approved to go to PROD. Our software is primarily Windows ...
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Deployments, another unsolved problem in software engineering [closed]
Why is it so hard to package and deploy software? I want to understand what exactly is the inherent complexity of creating self-contained binaries? Currently it seems that golang is the only game in ...
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database migration with data already in the database in production
I don't know much about migrations, but this is a specific question I'm not sure how to answer.
In production, how can one change the database format/schema when there is already user data in there? (...
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Should a developer refuse to access production server? [closed]
There are already questions on SE that ask if a developer should have access to the production server(s).
But, given the fact that I already have a root access on the production server, should I say ...
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Moving code to production without breaking existing functionality? [closed]
How can one move development / test code into production, and not end up breaking the functionality in Production environment? I am working with a small sized company, so they don't have a budget for ...
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Managing code changes in this coding environment
I have the following coding environment:
Three Developers
Source code resides in Team Foundation Server (2010)
Development Environment
Stage Environment
Production Environment
As the Senior ...
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Testing strategy for production environment [closed]
In an ideal world, dev/ops are working together as one team to release something onto production.
However, there are organizations with limitations so that release engineers/teams are kept ...
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What is the proper way to use an IDE to work on remote code?
One of the code bases I work on has a development environment that is running on a dev server and cannot be copied over to my PC to locally test and develop. I am wondering what is the proper way to ...
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Why shouldn't you develop on production database? [duplicate]
I need help with organizing my arguments for why it's MADNESS to develop against production data.
Backstory: I started working here six months ago and I noticed we're developing directly against ...
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Full production build in source control for easy rollbacks?
I want a quick way to roll back our production build in the event of any mishaps - a one-click solution, if you will. My gut is telling me that this is important - and I believe that my gut is correct,...
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Class/Object with different sets of configurations, singletons etc (PHP)
I want to produce maintainable code for configuring one or multiple classes differently depending whether in a production or development environment.
For example, making a Paypal class/object that ...
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Environment-aware Code
There are situations where the deployed environment (development, test, or production, for example) might dictate the outcome of certain actions.
For example, perhaps a successful "user registration" ...
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How can one guarantee unique identifiers, even in the case of system collapse and restoration from backup
In the manufacturing of a device each one has to get a unique identifier. So far so good, one can have a file containing the last used ID on a shared drive, or a network-based service managing and ...
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Limiting certain functionality to development environment only [closed]
I intuitively think that an application should be exactly the same in DEV, QA, and PROD environments. However, I have been asked to add a feature to an application that will only be available in DEV ...
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Scalability of using environment variables
I just moved into the Ruby on Rails world and with it I am being introduced to much more liberal use of environment variables than what I have been exposed to in the past. Specifically, it appears ...
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Things to do before going to production
I am finishing up a decently sized Python/Shell project, and I'm wondering if there's a 'best practice' list of things to do when finishing up development.
So far I've done:
pylint
pycallgraph
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What are the characteristics or features of production-quality code?
This is the first time I will be delivering code for a freelance project (web-app), and, since I don't have much experience shipping code, I am having a hard time deciding whether my program is ready ...
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