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> A great engineer that I knew at AWS once said: > > When you see hoof prints, think horses not zebras. Looked this one up and the original medical aphorism d

> A great engineer that I knew at AWS once said: > > When you see hoof prints, think horses not zebras. Looked this one up and the original medical aphorism dates back to the 1940s and was 'When you hear hoofbeats' [1], in case anyone's curious. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_(medicine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_(medicine)

ShroudedNight 7y ago
It's worth noting that in a computing context the reliability of this heuristic is questionable relative to what it would be in medicine: https://youtu.be/fE2KDzZaxvE https://youtu.be/fE2KDzZaxvE Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017