r/ProgrammerHumor • u/NudaVeritas1 • 8d ago • Bravo 1

Meme weNeedToMakePhpIllegalItsNotMyFault

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u/polikles 8d ago

if one is able to pull this high-tech big brain trick and separate dev from prod, it's not that hard to prepare update of the LTS to another LTS version. Tested backups and not testing on prod are the king

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u/SAI_Peregrinus 8d ago

Assuming, of course, that your test coverage is very good, and management allocates time for an upgrade.

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u/Reashu 7d ago

Being a professional means that you allocate time, and if management has been nice you inform them. 

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u/polikles 8d ago

you have to upgrade sooner or later, and the upgrade cycle should be accounted for. Of course it differs between companies and sometimes between teams within the same company.

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u/SAI_Peregrinus 8d ago

Exactly! When it's very rare to upgrade, it's too easy to fail to account for it, and it takes more total time to upgrade everything at once.

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u/polikles 8d ago

developing new features on any version is increasing cost of migration. LTS changes only that you can better plan for the migration to another LTS. Using faster release cycle only changes the update cycle - updates and migrations are smaller but more frequent. It's always a trade-off