Adrian Cockcroft

The running with scissors analogy:

Go slow holding something sharp or fragile

Run fast holding something wrapped safely

If your system is more robust, you can innovate more quickly without spending so much time on tests, coordination and firefighting.

#microservices #agile #chaosengineering #resilience

Aug 22, 2023 at 1:33amWeb
Show threadAdrian CockcroftAug 22, 2023
The point I’m trying to make is that investing in #resilience and #ChaosEngineering speeds up innovation by making it safer to try things out, and by reducing the coordination overhead. Experiment to ensure that the impact of failures is mitigated. Some failures are external dependencies, but others are deployments or operational changes that didn’t work. With well tested mitigation, impact is minimized.
Show threadDave MangotAug 22, 2023

@adrianco my favorite...

"we're having a major outage right now so we're just going to quickly slap together a fix, skip all testing, and ship it right to production so we can fix it more quickly"

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