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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 75 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

As a data engineer, testing with production loads is critical to performance checking, as well as finding edge cases where your assumptions about what can be expected in the data are curb stomped and send you back to the drawing board to cry and think about what you've done.

[–] Crashumbc 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

17 years working with hospital patient data. I'm going to curl up in a corner and cry now...

[–] Skullgrid 20 points 1 week ago

dev teams usually :

What's the worst that could happen,people won't die

this guy :

17 years working with hospital patient data

must be high pressure work.

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