Sweeping Consequences - Avoid All In Until You Are Sure

Develpreneur: Become a Better Developer and Entrepreneur · Jun 28, 2022 · 17m

There is an old joke about sweeping consequences in IT related to wildcard commands like "rm -rf *." However, there are ways to avoid getting bit by them. For example, we can do test runs and subset queries before doing the real thing. While it is undoubtedly faster to rip off one of those commands, it is also dangerous. This episode looks into some tricks of the trade I learned after countless times of being tripped up by this concept.

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