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		avereveard on May 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Simple Dockerfile examples are often broken by def... we do that but it's hard to CI a whole operating system, some week ago we got bit by a weird imagemagick bug that was triggered by very specific tiffs that weren't in out test suite but that one of our clients used extensively for their product images. annoying and wouldn't have happened if we were running pinned versions, that said getting stuck on old software would be worse. however nothing can ever test something like that fully, just too many combinations :(

mason55 on May 28, 2019 [–]

Yup software will always break. The key is whether you can fix it quickly (fix meaning land commits AND get it in prod) and test for the issue in an automated way in the future.

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