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You can certainly run the product, but engineered solutions should fail so infrequently that the idea of being "on call" becomes ridiculous. Of course, there a
by 9rx 2y ago
You can certainly run the product, but engineered solutions should fail so infrequently that the idea of being "on call" becomes ridiculous.
Of course, there are tradeoffs that come with that. You might not need engineering in your product.
- mdaniel 2y agoI am always wary of "should" sentences. As best I can tell, it's only ridiculous if every human in the whole chain executes flawlessly. I am cognizant that very few space shuttles blew up, but the amount of development and testing time that went into them is similarly impressive
- 9rx 2y ago> but the amount of development and testing time that went into them is similarly impressive Absolutely. As before, there are tradeoffs to be made. Not all software needs engineering, and it may even be detrimental to it. But if you have proclaimed engineers working on your product...