euruko2014/call-for-papers — pull request #5 by indirect (2013-11-24 21:08:54+00:00)
Title: The Tip of the Iceberg

Production blindness (for lack of a better phrase) is a really big problem for web developers. Once they've struggled all the way through creating their app, they have to learn how to deploy it! And even if they know how to deploy it, they are unlikely to realize just how different production environments are from development. Without awareness of how production environments are different, we can't anticipate how they will break. Let's encourage thought and discussion about those differences when it's easy to make changes, not after production has gone down for the third time this month.