At scale, systems don’t fail sometimes. They fail constantly.

The real problem isn’t failure — it’s pretending failure is exceptional.

When failure semantics aren’t explicit, humans appear to interpret partial success, retries, and blast radius.

Lessons from Scale #10:

Failure Is a First-Class API

https://spatiallyadjusted.com/lessons-from-scale-10-failure-is-a-first-class-api

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