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		icedchai on March 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why One Programmer Doesn’t Do DevOps Anymore Actual new method: dev logs in to production server, changes something live as part of a emergency / hot fix. It never gets documented anywhere.

toomuchtodo on March 9, 2015 | [–]

I wouldn't go that far. Its documented on the system when it gets hot imaged and the image is never rebuilt from the config mgmt tool again /s

dreamfactory2 on March 9, 2015 | [–]

so not code as infrastructure and therefore precisely not devops

icedchai on March 9, 2015 | [–]

yes, but that adhoc activity is what many (incorrectly) perceive as "devops", so still relevant.

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