> Fear is a wonderful motivator. I'm convinced this is part of what drives home so many "oops" lessons for me and helps me figure out what I can do to mitigate

> Fear is a wonderful motivator. I'm convinced this is part of what drives home so many "oops" lessons for me and helps me figure out what I can do to mitigate them in the future. For example, I learned the value of caching when we launched a client's site on a nationally televised show. We didn't have caching and when tens of thousands people hit it after the show's host mentioned it, it went down. Just as we got it back up, the show aired in central time. Boom. And That was a bad day but I will always remember the value of not just writing code and delivering a website, but trying to understand how it will be used and in what capacity. And caching. Always caching.