Modern webapp deployment approach is typically to have an automated continuous build and deployment pipeline triggered from source control, which deploys into a staging environment for testing, and then promotes the same precise tested artifacts to production. Probably all in the cloud too.

Compared to that, manually FTPing the files up to the server seems ridiculously antiquated, to the extent that newbies in the biz can't even believe we ever did it that way. But it's genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago.

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 42 points 4 months ago (11 children)

manually FTPing the files up to the server seems ridiculously antiquated

But ... but I do that, and I'm only 18 :(

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Like anything else, it's good to know how to do it in many different ways, it may help you down the line.

In production in an oddball environment, I have a python script to ftp transfer to a black box with only ftp exposed as an option.

Another system rebuilds nightly only if code changes, publishing to a QC location. QC gives it a quick review (we are talking website here, QC is "text looks good and nothing looks weird"), clicks a button to approve, and it gets published the following night.

I've had hardware (again, black box system) where I was able to leverage git because it was the only command exposed. Aka, the command they forgot to lock down and are using to update their device. Their intent was to sneakernet a thumb drive over to it for updates, I believe in sneaker longevity and wanted to work around that.

So you should know how to navigate your way around in FTP, it's a good thing! But I'd also recommend learning about all the other ways as well, it can help in the future.

(This comment brought to you by "I now feel older for having written it", and "I swear I'm only in my fourties,")

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not to rub it in, but in my forties could be read as almost the entirety of the modern web was developed during my adulthood.

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

It could, but I'm in my early 40s.

I just started early with a TI-99/4A, then a 286, before building my own p133.

So the "World Wide Web!" posters were there for me in middle school.

Still old lol

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