I am a developer at The Washington Post and I help build newsroom facing tools. I also am the Chair of the DC chapter of ACM and produce a podcast called DC Tech Stories.
Depends on the team and tool (can I copy and past that to every answer hahah). Most of the time it's branch off master, fix bug, deploy to QA/testing site, test again, get your PR approved by whatever teams are involved, deploy to master, deal with the cache :)
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What's the process for getting a hot fix into production?
Depends on the team and tool (can I copy and past that to every answer hahah). Most of the time it's branch off master, fix bug, deploy to QA/testing site, test again, get your PR approved by whatever teams are involved, deploy to master, deal with the cache :)