Edit: so im done with my preliminary research into this codebase.

Our corporate SSO provider is changing, so I’ve been updating our tools to take advantage of the new badges. I found this in a web application that I started on today. The original developer is long gone, and according to our PaaS, this app has been running for just under 3 years without an update.

There is no CI/CD, blue-green deployment, or back ups. The database is an H2 db with ddl-auto set to create-drop on startup, meaning that this database will delete itself if the app is restaged but thanks to this guys code, it won’t populate itself. 🤷

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      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

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          Yeah, of course you want restoring from backups to be as easy as possible. It’s just sometimes not feasible, usually because someone can’t afford the time or equipment to set it up.

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          At one of the businesses I worked at, the backup was very slow, and at some point the daily backup started taking more than 24 hours. You can probably guess what happened after that.

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        👃👈

        According to the documentation for the app, they got it classified as a shop aid tool, thereby circumventing production requirements.

        The whole app is written like some college kids hello world mvc app

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          [mis-]classified as a shop aid tool

          a college kids hello world app

          This hits way too close to home.

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            This job pays sooo well though, so I just do what I can and try to speak up when appropriate. They never take my advice, but I have a long list of cya emails for when it all goes tits up 🤙