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"You can't legislate against failure, but you can focus on fast detection and response" -- Chris Pinkham
by pdelgallego 7y ago
"You can't legislate against failure, but you can focus on fast detection and response"
-- Chris Pinkham
- PenguinCoder 7y ago"Prevention is ideal, but detection is a must"
- iso947 7y agoIt’s amazing how this is accepted in the software world. Move fast and break things, such a different philosophy to other areas.
- dasil003 7y agoIt’s evolutionary pressure; software is malleable and potential functionality is limitless. Software companies that didn’t ascribe to this philosophy were repeatedly killed by ones that did until it became the status quo.
- dspillett 7y agoI think the quote from Pinkham is more about dealing with genuinely unavoidable failures, not those due to moving without appropriate due diligence.
- mattigames 7y agoI mean, that's rather disputable: The Apollo 1 exploded, medical mistakes have a toll of 250.000 deaths per year in the US alone; among many other serious mistakes on vast different areas, I think unreliability is unfortunately a constant on the human race.
- _salmon 7y ago"I will not be harassed in my own private domicile" -- Jesse Pinkman
- edm0nd 7y ago"I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS" -- Walter White