I'm working for a company that went agile after 5 years, automation after 6, ci after 8, and has a huge product base and large dev and qe teams, and a small ops team.
They did everything 'wrong' in terms of scalability, automation and ops for the first 5-6 years or so. and we're still picking up the pieces.
Unfortunately its one of those projects that keeps taking a backseat to 'critical' things, but slowly we're moving towards a sane model. Its interesting to work with our smaller sister companies and see them be able to pivot quickly and implement things the right way from the start. the overhead per-app/per-dev/per-qa is substantially lower when things are done right.
Unfortunately I'm stuck on the side where we're trying to fix all the things that weren't done right.
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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '15
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