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Where do you think that code for mission-critical servers gets developed?

There's a pretty scary amount of iffy public code that ends up on mission-critical servers. I could outline some chains of connection, but briefly: it's very easy for someone's cheesy little website to become a significant player in another organization's processing.

That "website" you're going to likely runs not only on multiple servers, but in multiple datacenters across multiple organizational borders: core site, sales, support, order fulfillment, marketing analytics, web analytics, email, messaging, social integration ....

The best way not to get into bad habits on your production, mission-critical systems is to not allow them anywhere else.

Granted, this is a Vim suite, but I'm seeing similar brain death in far too many corners.



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