You wouldn't...

Feb 7

You wouldn’t give a big presentation without running a few dry runs through your slide deck and material.

You wouldn’t try out a recipe for the first time when you have an important guest coming over for dinner.

You wouldn’t buy a car site unseen and without a test drive.

You wouldn’t even buy a widget on Amazon without reading a few reviews.

You wouldn’t hire a VP, manager, or junior developer without several rounds of interviews.

You wouldn’t pick a paint color for your living room without analyzing paint chips and probably painting a few test spots.

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And yet, many, many data teams make bug fixes and code changes directly in production.

They think it’s easier. Quicker. Perhaps they think the fallout from a mistake isn’t that bad.

Or they don’t know a better way. It’s too cumbersome to have separate environments.

“CI/CD” gives you shivers.

There is a better way. It’s not easier to skip this stuff. And the side effects of prod failures are worse than you think.

Great data teams don’t skip the foundation.

Or everything else crumbles.

I’m here,

Sawyer

Confidence