One of my colleagues wrote a great post about DBAs and developers, about how a DBA's pushback on bad code isn't to be difficult, it's because they can see the future. I never thought of myself as a modern-day Nostradamus, predicting the future of system performance. Apparently I had another title besides DBA.

Working under pressure and with short deadlines often leads to short cuts. I've made them. I've implemented quick hot fixes. I've forgotten to port changes back to development databases. I've increased our tech debt load, just to solve a more immediate problem.

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