I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I've never worked anywhere I could just throw up an experimental page on a production site to see what would happen, and I've never worked anywhere where suggesting to the people in charge, "hey, it might work better if we did X" was particularly effective.
As programmers, we tend to go with what we're told to work on. If you're in a role where you do that kind of analysis as well as development, then is it because it's a very small company where while you have some autonomy, you're too overworked to find time for side projects?
I guess I'm fortunate then to be at a smaller company, where developers do get a chance to voice suggestions and to try some things out.
This is a problem that the business tries to solve with DevOps or other cross-department techniques. Us devs, left to our own devices, will gravitate towards things that make sense to us, which isn't always the most effective use of our time, in terms of business value.
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I've never worked anywhere I could just throw up an experimental page on a production site to see what would happen, and I've never worked anywhere where suggesting to the people in charge, "hey, it might work better if we did X" was particularly effective.
As programmers, we tend to go with what we're told to work on. If you're in a role where you do that kind of analysis as well as development, then is it because it's a very small company where while you have some autonomy, you're too overworked to find time for side projects?
I guess I'm fortunate then to be at a smaller company, where developers do get a chance to voice suggestions and to try some things out.
This is a problem that the business tries to solve with DevOps or other cross-department techniques. Us devs, left to our own devices, will gravitate towards things that make sense to us, which isn't always the most effective use of our time, in terms of business value.