> You also need to build a team that you can trust to write the code you agreed you'd write

I tell every hire new and old “Hey do your thing, we trust you. Btw we have your phone number. Thanks”

Works like a charm. People even go out of their way to write tests for things that are hard to verify manually. And they verify manually what’s hard to write tests for.

The other side of this is building safety nets. Takes ~10min to revert a bad deploy.

▲

pdhborges 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The other side of this is building safety nets. Takes ~10min to revert a bad deploy.

Does it? Reverting a bad deploy is not only about running the previous version.

Did you mess up data? Did you take actions on third party services that that need to be reverted? Did it have legal reprecursions?

	▲	jamiemallers 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		[dead]

▲

namanyayg 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How does the phone number help?

	▲	chaboud 38 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's the polite version of "we know where you live". Telling someone you have their phone number is a way of saying "we'll call you and expect immediacy if you break something." Wanna be treated like an adult? Cool. You'll also be held accountable like an adult.
	▲	swiftcoder 29 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Never received a phone call at 5am on a Sunday because a bug is causing a valued customer to lose $10k/minute, and by the way, the SVP is also on the line? Lucky bastard
	▲	gabriel-uribe 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Presumably they will be contacted if there's a problem. So the hire has an interest in not creating problems.