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Allowing Business Users To Program Your System Is A Recipe For Disaster

Stefan Tilkov,

Phil Haack:

I don’t know about you, but every company I’ve ever worked at had a Fort Knox like system in place for deploying code to the production server. […] The solution is not to make programming more like the way business users work now. The solution is to apply the lessons learned from software development into other business processes.

I couldn’t agree more.