1mo ago

the last commit improved the performance by 10x...

source: https://www.monkeyuser.com/2025/10x/

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Everybody has a test environment.
Some are lucky enough to also have a production environment.

It's not real deployment if it isn't pushed straight to prod.
Test boxes are for communists and the French.
- pushed to prod »on Friday«
  
  Before a holiday weekend.
- I once worked at a place that had a test environment that used the prod databases. After I left, I heard about an intern who left a where clause off of a SQL query and rewrote an entire production table from the test environment.
  
  It's like the SQL creators designed the syntax to achieve maximum fuckery for those where "test" and "live" are different words for the same thing.
  I bet they were pissing themselves laughing when implementing the finicky ROLLBACK command, knowing it that it would be only ever be used in anger as a "hail Mary" from a dev halfway through writing his own resignation letter.

Last backup was done in the nineties to tape and our last working reader was sold for parts fifteen years ago. Also, no one knows if we're still paying Iron Mountain for the tape storage.