What the heck is source code, environments, and versioning for non technical people
Had an interesting conversation today and thought I'd share some insight to business people dealing with technical folks The crux of the question centered around a request we were making for "read only access to a staging environment". I pondered why that line item was there because from a technical perspective what we needed was access to the source code for a web application, we really didn't need access to anything in the environment (though it wouldn't hurt). Moreover, with only access to the environment, we wouldn't necessarily have access to the source code so the actual need wouldn't even be met. In conversation, a light began to come on in my head realizing that "source code" and "environment" are almost meaningless to many non-technical people, and in todays "As A Service" world, sometimes they get mingled together. Brief Overview Sourc Code is essentially the instruction that tell a computer "what to do&qu
