Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderAfter reading a few smug comments, I've concluded that some of the folks in this thread have never worked on an application where the production scale is many, many orders of magnitude greater than preproduction environments. There's no substitution for "testing in prod." If you're not "testing in prod" with your really-big application, you're not testing enough.
So it's a fair point that the fidelity of non-prod environments are inherently limited and you still need a bunch of other stuff like canaries, automated canary analysis, automated rollbacks, zone fault-tolerance, feature-flags, chaos engineering, server and client-side instrumentation, but this is generally 'next-level' stuff when most shops aren't even getting the basics right. For the overwhelming majority of non-prod environments and release processes I've seen they usually have basic problems and would catch…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 512
- Total comments
- 279
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-28 | I Test in Prod | henrik_w | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-08-28 | I Test in Production | codesuki | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-08-31 | I test in prod (2019) | jrvarela56 | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-09-04 | I Test in Prod | ngaut | 5 | 0 |
| 2019-11-09 | I Test in Prod | SparksZilla | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-07-19 | All of us test in production all the time (2019)First breakout | jrvarela56 | 198 | 156 |
| 2021-11-23 | I test in prodBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | rsie_above | 301 | 123 |