> I've seen companies not using source control
> ...all changes are being made directly on the production servers via SFTP
I know this used to be common, but recently? Curious how often this is still the case.
> ...all changes are being made directly on the production servers via SFTP
I know this used to be common, but recently? Curious how often this is still the case.
Several times within the last year for me. Not all companies have big tech departments with knowledgable developers advocating modern best practices. Some big internal systems can start out from someone internal applying some basic self-taught skills for example.
To be fair, the jump to using Git (and especially dealing with Git merge conflicts) is scary. It can be a hard sell to get people to move from a system they already completely understand and have used successfully for years, even if their system looks like ancient history to us.
Literally heard "...but my IDE already automatically uploads to FTP on save, I'm usually the only usually one editing it and I already know what I changed" last week.
Meanwhile the CEO who was rejecting the €¥$£ in yh budget since 2000 is angry at everyone!
Oh the times I have seen this!!!
This was for a 100+ year old company with millions of dollars in annual revenue that was owned by the government. So, yeah. 100% the IT director's fault, who'd been there since the early 90s.
Having no testing/staging environments remains pretty common, along with its cousin "production work happens on staging". Partnering with not-primarily-software companies and asking about staging infrastructure, you har that regularly. And yeah, SFTP/SCP/SSH is a standard push-and-deploy approach in places where that happens.
On the other hand, outside of a tech company and with less than a dozen developers, don't expect to find any source control. Consultants see a lot of this shit, they work in all industries including where developers don't exist, with a lot of thrown away projects.
Funny thing. Git probably made it worse in recent years by being impossibly hard to use.
/seriously, though - I...hope this isn't being done any longer - but I bet it is. Sigh...