Production Oriented Development

Paul Osman
Dec 30, 2019 · 10 min read

Also published at https://paulosman.me/2019/12/30/production-oriented-development.html

Throughout my career, I’ve developed some opinions. Some have worn particularly deep ruts, reinforced by years of experience. I tried to figure out what these had in common, and it’s the idea that code in production is the only code that matters. Staging doesn’t matter, code on your laptop doesn’t matter, QA doesn’t matter, only production matters. Everything else is debt.

This perspective probably comes from years of sitting in between operations and product…

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Paul Osman

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Software Eng @honeycombio. Rider of Bikes, Toronto person living in Austin, Coffee Addict, @meghatron's less witty half.

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