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> a lot of programmers don't understand (or don't think about?) what it means to have a failure Most of my devops consulting these days is more on the human si
by eropple 9y ago
> a lot of programmers don't understand (or don't think about?) what it means to have a failure
Most of my devops consulting these days is more on the human side of things (devs and ops not getting along, Managements Just Don't Understand, etc.) but whenever I end up in a design review this is still the first thing I ask: "how does this break, under what circumstances will it break, and how to we respond to it breaking without waking somebody with SSH access up at two in the morning?".
- jungturk 9y agoIt's expensive, and perhaps less enjoyable that other aspects of engineering, but it certainly pays dividends in many environments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analy...