Recovering a database from a backup is often possible but often a pain in the ass, and depending on the application you may not consider it acceptable to lose a day of data

that’s assuming they tested the backup system

When I sat down today I thought I was just going to be updating some properties file with oauth end points.

This is so blatantly stupid that I now have to pick through the code base and write up a change request and incident avoidance report 😕

Actually, this code is also used in their side business manufacturing cattle prods, that line must be excluded from the prods or else they may become sentient and form a cattle prod based skynet.

Only thing better is finding commented out code below that which would actually prevent it from running in Prod. Bonus if there’s a code comment next to it saying “disabled per email” with no further explanation.

I’m stealing this. This is a fantastic way to say a comment was good.

^C^C^C^C^C^C

Heh. That looks like it has decent odds of being a “company ending event” incident, to be specific.

But at least there’s lots of comments. And maybe someone already put a safety net in somewhere else and just forgot to update the 20 comments. It could happen.