I was so excited to meet a legit/professional dev team the first day of my career.
I was paired with a Sr dev and sat in his cubicle so he could show me some backend update to a prod app with 20K internal users... "normally I'd run this on the dev server, but, its quick & easy so Ill just do it on prod"
...watched him crash the whole thing & struggle the rest of the day to try and bring it up. I just sat there in awe, especially as everyone came running over and the emails poured in, while the Sr Dev casually brushed it all aside. He was more interested in explaining how the mobile game Ingress worked.
I had to reread this to check if you're really not talking about Ingress servers, because Niantic really seems to be doing changes directly in production all the time
also I completely understand how invested one can get in explaining Ingress
The amount of "yep, I know" I have to do any time anything goes down... at least Sales usually only has one person report it to me, other teams 3 different people will tell me at the same time...
They wouldn't read my email until after they reported it... so then I'd get two emails from each person: one saying there's an issue, and another saying "oh sorry just read your email that you already know about it"!
I was so excited to meet a legit/professional dev team the first day of my career.
I was paired with a Sr dev and sat in his cubicle so he could show me some backend update to a prod app with 20K internal users... "normally I'd run this on the dev server, but, its quick & easy so Ill just do it on prod"
...watched him crash the whole thing & struggle the rest of the day to try and bring it up. I just sat there in awe, especially as everyone came running over and the emails poured in, while the Sr Dev casually brushed it all aside. He was more interested in explaining how the mobile game Ingress worked.