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Software developers don't go to work in the morning to physically hold together the microservices they once programmed. My entire team could stop working tomor
by bakuninsbart 4y ago
Software developers don't go to work in the morning to physically hold together the microservices they once programmed.
My entire team could stop working tomorrow, and it would probably take months before things start to seriously break. Now if you're trying to code up a bunch of new features at the same time, and basically the entire world knows your security team just quit, the story is probably a bit different.
- revolvingocelot 4y agoI myself have a pretty low bus factor, but I'm pretty sure if I were bus'd, the issues that would eventually crop up would be hard to solve because of the institutional knowledge that makes me bus-y at all. I suspect neither you nor I work at hyperscale, where I'm given to understand things break much faster and at more interesting scales. It's hardly "physically holding" anything together, but what happens if you leave a bunch of services unmaintained? "Something bad", IMO, and the fact that something bad hasn't actually happened by this stage is impressive; you've really got to hand it to Fauci.