On this week's episode, we look at the controversy behind an issue whereby planning applications were mistakenly modified in production by a junior engineer who thought that they were working in a test environment. We'll discuss whether we should lock-down our production environments more, whether we should protect our staff against being able to make critical mistakes on real data, and our general thoughts on testing in production.  

Plus there's plenty of our usual life updates in The Stand-Up, where you can find out the result of Gwen's driving test, Neil's week one experiences with his Peloton, and Sanj rolling up his sleeves to work on some (awesome) new graphics for the show, and adding automation to our website! 

Plus, courtesy of the kind folks at CookMyGrub.com we've got another opportunity to win a £20 Amazon voucher - tune in to find out how!

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Start
01:44 The Stand-Up
14:39 Social Engineering
22:56 This Week's Epic
35:14 News Bytes
45:48 Competition Time
50:12 The Wash-Up    

STORIES FEATURED THIS WEEK:  

ShlinkedIn

Glean blog: How we discuss engineering improvements at Glean

Sky News: 'Your proposal is whack': Council worker mistakenly rejects planning applications with sarcastic comments - but decisions are legally binding

Statement from Swale Council

Reddit thread: "Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job"

LondonTechWatch: The August 2021 London Venture Capital Funding Report

London Tech Week

Mayor of London: Technology Design Lab

OWASP Top Ten

Wired: One Woman's Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia

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