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> They don't do QA, and their 'deploy process' takes everything down for hours.

This reminded me of this classic: https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/automated-testing-lea...

I'm putting it in a to-read list after 2 minutes of skimming, but that looks like an excellent article.

Sounds like Riot have a good head on their shoulders about how to handle testing games.

If you come from a different domain, it's important to realize that testing games is much more difficult than testing a lot of other types of software. And much like other kinds of software, when it's done well it looks easy.

I have no love for Riot-the-games-company, but there are pretty good reasons why Riot-the-software-company is so well-respected. Bear in mind that stuff like that blog post are just the upper crust of that iceberg. They basically took the notion of Chef best practices away from Opscode (now Chef, Inc.) and completely redefined them with environment cookbooks and Berkshelf. Things in devops have moved on somewhat, as they always do--but they were, and I assume still very much are, serious about building good processes and the tools necessary to make them better.

I wish Valve would do this for Dota 2.

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