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by mprovost 1969 days ago
This is coming from the perspective of someone working in platform engineering. The further down the stack you are, the more conservative (aka boring) you have to be, because the blast radius increases. Quoting another great post [0] on this: "The risk profile for infrastructure is different than the applications that run on top of that infrastructure."

[0] http://cloudscaling.com/blog/devops/continuous-delusion-at-t...