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I was working on a desktop application, with every release that had a new database-structure (the software had some sqlites) my boss got the databases from the clients, upgraded them manually and sent them back.
I'm not complaining, it was not my job and i got a fair amount of mail-addresses out of it
We're busy upgrading our application and our hosting servers from its current legacy setup. In a meeting today suggesting that we rebuild our stack with packer and Ansible and automate deployments with rundeck. Our head engineer said that automation is too risky and we should continue doing things manually. Right now he just sshd into a production machine to do a git pull...
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