Not Only For Yourself, But Also For Your Team
15 Sep 2016Configuration management, when I think about this word, all I remember is the word “config” on the games, internet, and files in computers. Since my first language was Korean, I did not know what the meaning was, but naturally it became the one I should not be touching unless I really need to touch it. So, to be honest, I knew almost nothing about configuration management until I was accepted into Information & Computer Science major.
While learning, the first version control system that I had engaged with was Makefile from C. Not only the ability that enables people to organize code for compiling but also the ability for controlling version and keeping up to date that C has was just amazing and comfortable. Despite the truth that there were no projects using Makefile for coding with other people, it was enough and clear for me to understand how important configuration management is and what will happen if there are no ways to configure files. Additionally, even though I have not yet experienced coding projects with people, but it will be definitely helpful if I am able to do effectively through practices, simply it is not only for myself but for the sake of the people or teams that I will be working with in the future.
With many kinds of open source codes and function as social community for coders, GitHub also offers version control ability through Git, and I think Git and GitHub both equally contributed them to be popular and successful and the community hub for open source and coding. Since both served their purposes faithfully so that they became widely loved and visited website and system and I think it is a discourtesy to weight on one side for the other side’s popularity.
To sum up, we are not alone in this earth and there will be a lot of times we will be cooperating with people, in the same manner, configuration management works the same, it is not only for ourselves to keep our works up to date with version control, but also for the people, teams, projects that we will be working on with, because we cannot work alone forever.