In general, the larger the company is, the more it aims for covering the software-related risks by paying for external support services. And it makes sense, at least in theory: * the bigger the company, the more complex its business is * the more complex the business is, the more software is...
Quite recently I've had an interesting discussion about the differences between developing applications in various IT ecosystems (OS + platform + language + IDE + libs + ...) - why do some of them suck (always suck / usually suck / sometimes suck) and why some suck more than other. Obviously, these questions are not easy...
All of those cases below are not made up. I’ve met with those cases -> sometimes as ideas, sometimes they were even used in practice. But they all have one common feature - they should be avoided at all cost. To simplify things, I’ve used Git Flow...