A sneak preview behind an embedded software factory. I suspect rapid application dev is back. | LinkedIn
March 10, 2026
Every second counts; even sixty seconds for CI/CD is too long. The natural destination from here for @latentpatterns is live editing programming memory. Sure, I could move content from the file system to the database.
But the more interesting thing is the application code. How can we kill CI/CD as it is today and instead safely live-edit the program’s memory? 😎
Back in the 90s, it was not at all uncommon to simply what we would now call deploy to production via FTP. We would update our HTML, our CSS, maybe a little bit of JavaScript or PHP, and then simply YOLO (The acronym didn’t then exist) it to our FTP server, where it was live in production.
Over the last 30 years or so we’ve become a bit more circumspect about this, in no small part because what we build has become increasingly complex, and our local environments have become further and further distinct from our production environments.
Here, though, Geoff Huntley of Ralph Wiggum fame is arguing perhaps we are returning to an era of deploying to production as rapid development becomes a thing once more.
