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Should Developers Have Access To Production?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-of-worms dept.

WHiTe VaMPiRe writes "Kyle Brandt recently wrote an editorial exploring the implications of providing developers access to the production servers of a Web site. He explores the risk introduced by providing higher level access as well as potential compromise solutions."

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  1. Re:For me by Oligonicella · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Sometimes developers need access to production--such as on a critical system..."

    No, they don't. Not for any meaningful definition of the word critical. Developers have a mirror system with whatever adjustments they're doing. Fix the problem in test, move it over. Developers have no need of touching a live system.