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[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

That's but one instance. Just because the people writing the code aren't good at backups doesn't mean the code is bad. And Prismo's federated, so is by default more awesome than everything that isn't.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Well if their architecture is to store the DB inside of a git repo that's pretty bad design. But yes, they wipe the floor with us as they are decentralized.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Why is storing the database in a git repository bad design? Inefficient, yes, but Git has almost all of the features a good backup system needs.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Because code is not data and vice versa. It's extra risk that sets you up for exactly what happened- switching branches replaced/reverted the DB data with something else. Ideally you can blow away the repo, re check out, DB data is happily in safe in /var or somewhere.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Wait. They were storing it in the same repository as the code? Oh, yeah, that's stupid.

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Yep, dude talked about it in his what happened post. Probably in there but ignored by git, since they didn't have a backup.

[–]wizzwizz4 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ah. Then that's just a mistake. An easy one to make, actually, if you don't know how git works.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed, but still bad design/setup to store the data there.