The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit

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Post by spladug » Fri, Jun 02, 2017, 11:02 PM UTC

The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit
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Re: The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit

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Post by eriknstr » Sat, Jun 03, 2017, 1:14 AM UTC

I think it's strange how little attention this got here on HN. Submitted by one of the Reddit admins even. I'd ask you to do an AMA but I have no questions and besides you lot are pretty good at answering questions whenever they come up anyway so.

Re: The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit

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Post by spladug » Sat, Jun 03, 2017, 1:35 AM UTC

eriknstr wrote: post #2

I think it's strange how little attention this got here on HN. Submitted by one of the Reddit admins even. I'd ask you to do an AMA but I have no questions and besides you lot are pretty good at answering questions whenever they come up anyway so.

Thanks! Do feel free to ask if you think of something :)

Re: The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit

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Post by eriknstr » Sat, Jun 03, 2017, 2:07 AM UTC

spladug wrote: post #3

eriknstr wrote: post #2

I think it's strange how little attention this got here on HN. Submitted by one of the Reddit admins even. I'd ask you to do an AMA but I have no questions and besides you lot are pretty good at answering questions whenever they come up anyway so.

Thanks! Do feel free to ask if you think of something :)

Actually I came to think of something but it's not an AMA kind of question but a Reddit question though. I just opted in to the profile beta literally less than an hour ago and I like it but I have a bug report [1] and a feature request / feedback [2] that I'd like to be seen by the specific people that work on the profile portion of Reddit. Who do I contact about that? Or was submitting it to /r/beta sufficient and they'll see it because I've posted it there?

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/beta/comments/6eyoy4/beta_bug_list_...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/beta/comments/6eyqse/feedback_profi...

Re: The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit

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Post by jensvdh » Sat, Jun 03, 2017, 2:10 AM UTC

spladug wrote: post #3

eriknstr wrote: post #2

I think it's strange how little attention this got here on HN. Submitted by one of the Reddit admins even. I'd ask you to do an AMA but I have no questions and besides you lot are pretty good at answering questions whenever they come up anyway so.

Thanks! Do feel free to ask if you think of something :)

Does Reddit have democratic deploys (i.e every engineer is responsible to deploy their own changes into production). Or do you guys have a system with release managers?

Re: The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit

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Post by spladug » Sat, Jun 03, 2017, 2:11 AM UTC

jensvdh wrote: post #5

spladug wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Do feel free to ask if you think of something :)

Does Reddit have democratic deploys (i.e every engineer is responsible to deploy their own changes into production). Or do you guys have a system with release managers?

Every engineer writes code, gets it reviewed, checks it in, and rolls it out to production regularly.

Re: The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit

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Post by artursapek » Sat, Jun 03, 2017, 2:26 AM UTC

Great write-up. I liked the stage-by-stage structure of this.

I built a tool for the team to coordinate deploy locks at my last job, similar to the IRC bot described here. People seemed to like it a lot over the previous system of just shouting at the rest of the room that they're taking prod.

Re: The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit

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Post by eriknstr » Sat, Jun 03, 2017, 2:28 AM UTC

spladug wrote: post #3

eriknstr wrote: post #2

I think it's strange how little attention this got here on HN. Submitted by one of the Reddit admins even. I'd ask you to do an AMA but I have no questions and besides you lot are pretty good at answering questions whenever they come up anyway so.

Thanks! Do feel free to ask if you think of something :)

I came to think of a couple of AMA kind of questions also.

When you are an employee of Reddit you obviously spend a lot of time on Reddit.

1. How does this affect your life outside of work. Do you find yourself browsing Reddit in your spare time or do you avoid it?

2. Do you ever find yourself spending whole days at work without being on the site because you don't want to be distracted while working on something?

Re: The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit

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Post by spladug » Sat, Jun 03, 2017, 2:33 AM UTC

eriknstr wrote: post #8

spladug wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Do feel free to ask if you think of something :)

I came to think of a couple of AMA kind of questions also. When you are an employee of Reddit you obviously spend a lot of time on Reddit. 1. How does this affect your life outside of work. Do you find yourself browsing Reddit in your spare time or do you avoid it? 2. Do you ever find yourself spending whole days at work without being on the site because you don't want to be distracted while working on something?

> Do you find yourself browsing Reddit in your spare time or do you avoid it?

I personally still spend plenty of time reading stuff on the site, both educational (r/askhistorians, various programming subreddits) and entertainment (r/popular). I'll definitely tend to avoid the more meta subreddits when not in a work mood though.

> Do you ever find yourself spending whole days at work without being on the site because you don't want to be distracted while working on something?

Oh yeah, it definitely happens: heads down in code, doing a complex series of deploys, or just in a bunch of meetings.

There's also the times where I go to check on the site to check on something I deployed and instead get distracted by something on the front page and forget what I was doing. Oops.

Re: The Evolution of Code Deploys at Reddit

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Post by jameskegel » Sat, Jun 03, 2017, 3:11 AM UTC

spladug wrote: post #9

eriknstr wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I came to think of a couple of AMA kind of questions also. When you are an employee of Reddit you obviously spend a lot of time on Reddit. 1. How does this affect your life outside of work. Do you find yourself browsing Reddit in your spare time or do you avoid it? 2. Do you ever find yourself spending whole days at work without being on the site because you don't want to be distracted while working on something?

> Do you find yourself browsing Reddit in your spare time or do you avoid it? I personally still spend plenty of time reading stuff on the site, both educational (r/askhistorians, various programming subreddits) and entertainment (r/popular). I'll definitely tend to avoid the more meta subreddits when not in a work mood though. > Do you ever find yourself spending whole days at work without being on the site because…

I'd like to pose a follow up question; as your role at the company has progressed, do you feel your day to day (collective you, the [a]'s) is less development oriented and more social management of the different issues that arise when a community gets that large?