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After reading Performancing’s post about Avoiding The Quick Fix Curse, I came to remember an article I posted on my good old DWPG.com site way back in 2003 with the title “Web Developers Worse than Hackers” and was based on a survey published by Attenda Consulting Agency.
The survey, which I am confident is still relevant to this date, tells us that the possibility for down-time is highest monday morning. The reason? This is when the Web Developers are implementing all the “great” ideas they came up with during the weekend.
“Development staff are now a bigger threat to website uptime than hackers and viruses combined, according to data taken from 70 leading sites over a nine-week period.” reported vunet.com and they further stated “Then, as soon as you see the developers logging on again, the trouble starts.”
As Neal Gandhi of Attenda said - “However, you still get managers who don’t understand the technology and want changes implemented yesterday. If it goes wrong it’s the developer that ends up with egg on the face.”
If the problems is caused by a developer implementing an untested feature or a feature that’s not properly QAed on a production server, then the problem is not the developer, it’s the lack of routines to prevent that from happening and it’s the lack of a management that understand the problems involved.
What do you think will happen if your site or blog goes down? Visitors will not be able to access your site, and if you’re really out of luck, a seach engine spider will visit you, returning a page not found to the index - how much does that suck?
The morale of the story is simple - when dealing with tens of thousands of users in a network environment, or a international website with hundreds of thousands of visitors a month like DWPG.Com used to be, always make sure to test before implementation. Failing to do so will, almost without exception, result in loss of revenue, and that is certainly something a company cannot afford.
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