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What did you guys deploy/what scale tipping point did you guys hit that caused the past 3 days of problems? At my job, if something we go wrong... management j
by MuffinFlavored 7y ago
What did you guys deploy/what scale tipping point did you guys hit that caused the past 3 days of problems?
At my job, if something we go wrong... management just tells us roll it back. That always fixes the problem, right? :P
- uniformlyrandom 7y agoYep, it is Dunning-Kruger effect. If rolling back works for a simple system, why wouldn't it work for a complex one? Because one cannot step into the same river twice. Heraclitus would probably make a good engineering manager.
- tcbasche 7y agoThis is 100% not the Dunning-Kruger effect. How on Earth would it be? edit - from wikipedia: In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is.
- behindsight 7y agoMaybe not directly but it could still apply. I interpreted GP as saying the aforementioned management has just enough cursory knowledge to want to apply the same hammer that worked on a simple system to that on a complex system, but not enough knowledge to realize the unknown-unknowns that they aren't even aware of.
- tcbasche 7y agoI wouldn't say that's a psychological phenomenon though, just ignorance, arrogance or over-confidence.