Modern webapp deployment approach is typically to have an automated continuous build and deployment pipeline triggered from source control, which deploys into a staging environment for testing, and then promotes the same precise tested artifacts to production. Probably all in the cloud too.

Compared to that, manually FTPing the files up to the server seems ridiculously antiquated, to the extent that newbies in the biz can't even believe we ever did it that way. But it's genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago.

[–] aard@kyu.de 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Shitty companies did it like that back then - and shitty companies still don't properly utilize what easy tools they have available for controlled deployment nowayads. So nothing really changed, just that the amount of people (and with that, amount of morons) skyrocketed.

I had automated builds out of CVS with deployment to staging, and option to deploy to production after tests over 15 years ago.

[–] DinosaurSr@programming.dev 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

after tests

What is "tests"?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

Tests is the industry name for the automated paging when production breaks

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