The Daily WTF

Automation and tooling, especially around continuous integration and continuous deployment is standard on applications, large and small.

Paramdeep Singh Jubbal works on a larger one, with a larger team, and all the management overhead such a team brings. It needs to interact with a REST API, and as you might expect, the URL for that API is different in production and test environments. This is all handled by the CI pipeline, so long as you remember to properly configure which URLs map to which environments.

Paramdeep mistyped one of the URLs when configuring a build for a new environment. The application passed all the CI checks, and when it was released to the new environment, it crashed and burned. Their error handling system detected the failure, automatically filed a bug ticket, Paramdeep saw the mistake, fixed it, and everything was back to the way it was supposed to be

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