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by clooless 1968 days ago
> If you have production outages resulting from new code you have serious gaps in your certification process

If you have production outages every week, yeah. But no organization is free of production outages. When they do happen (I said when, not if) it matters a lot if you used standard libraries, code that is plugged into the infrastructure, and the like, and not hand-rolled cowboy code

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> it matters a lot if you used standard libraries

Why? From a security perspective, an outage is a security matter, the remediation plan is what’s important.