16 ms·
You would think that people working in software would understand the idea that your assumptions about the environment your product is in are very often invalida
by infogulch 5y ago
You would think that people working in software would understand the idea that your assumptions about the environment your product is in are very often invalidated during real world testing, but this thread doesn't seem to bear that out. Perhaps the mountain of abstractions, automated retries, fault tolerance, and error correction that makes technology as reliable as it is, has made us complacently unaware of just how hard it is to build something new.
- Grimm1 5y agoWith how often large swaths of the internet are down or having issues I don't think most people in software have anything more than a cursory understanding of some of the terms you have in there, hard to be complacent about reliability when a lot of software is equally held together by tape and gum.