Just saw the other day that the Pixelfed developer pushed out a new feature pretty quickly and it reminded me of how much faster you can push new features out when you're working on a small team with very few developers.

Then I realised that... At the place I work at (an app most likely installed on your phone) - well every change will have a huge impact. If 0.05% of the users' performance is degraded - that's a shit ton of users. So we have processes in place. We test on all kinds of devices before releasing.

Running a high quality service at scale is hard and it's expensive and it's not always fun because you have to leave your cowboy developer guns at home and do the homework before pushing to production.

[–] nick@midwest.social 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Brother I feel that. Half the incidents over the past month have been p90 latency issues because someone pushed a bad query to prod.

That’s why I’m not interested in running any fediverse stuff; maybe a few years ago it would have been fun, but I’m just not in the mood to do work and then do unpaid work.

I will say the Pixelfed app feels pretty damn nice, though.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You mean networks dont just manage themselves?

[–] nick@midwest.social 2 points 5 days ago

Crazy right? I’m sure AI will solve this for us this year 🥴