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It’s interesting, we want reliability, but too much reliability makes something invisible, and then failures become catastrophic because there is no expertise i
by nickpeterson 3y ago
It’s interesting, we want reliability, but too much reliability makes something invisible, and then failures become catastrophic because there is no expertise in the organization.
- carapace 3y agoDeath and birth are evolved. Micro-organisms don't do it. A few multicellular organisms don't either (e.g. there's a kind of immortal jellyfish, but what it does is periodically revert to an amorphous mass and then grow back into a jellyfish.)
- xupybd 3y agoTrue reliability requires Chaos Monkeys
- trustingtrust 3y agoThe thing about reliability is that not every single thing needs to be ‘reliable’. The reliability comes from knowing the failure points. Some issues you may not be able to fix right away but simply knowing why something fails is more reliable than not knowing. And that’s the scariest problem I’ve seen. Not knowing failures.
- dredmorbius 3y agoMoreso than this: redundancy.
- Horffupolde 3y agoIt’s the same with wildfires. The obsession and panic around small fires makes me cringe.