What systems are you working on? Many are held together by ritual, and deviating from the ritual causes outages. They’re very fragile in some form (deployment, change, infrastructure, dependencies, etc.). They won’t break if you follow the happy path, but to say they’re so robust that an active attempt at breaking won’t bring them down is ... naive? Not sure if that’s the word I’m looking for.
I say this as someone who’s worked at large tech companies that are “internet scale”.
I say this as someone who’s worked at large tech companies that are “internet scale”.