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Not everyone is writing a webapp where you can roll out upgrades anytime CI passes, or a phone app that you can upgrade every week. some of us work on code that will be shipped in a device that is not easy to upgrade.


Not all software that is frequently updated is a web app. Ask Tesla, Apple, Sonos, Garmin, ...

Anything connected to a network could be released frequently if people wanted to. Not everything is connected to a network though.


There is a long list of both.

Some things should not roll out updates without extensive testing, including manual testing to verify nothing was missed.


like airplanes




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