as a google employee, this often makes me sad too, but when it comes to human life, it's a bit more nuanced than that. engineers don't have the luxury to do ma

as a google employee, this often makes me sad too, but when it comes to human life, it's a bit more nuanced than that. engineers don't have the luxury to do many things they could otherwise do on their server side software. You break a server, you fire-drill it, get the resources, roll back the release or so on. You lose money, sometimes tens of millions of dollars, but not human life. You write your post mortem, and put the protections in place, you learn from it. Noone can afford to lose a life.