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by PaulRobinson 1052 days ago
Was an SDM of a team of brand new SDEs standing up a new service. In a code review, pointed to an issue that could cause a Sev2, and the SDE pushed back "that's like one in a million chance, at most". Pointed out once we were dialled up to 500k TPS (which is where we needed to be at), that was 30 times a minute... "You want to be on call that week?". Insist on Highest Standards takes on a different meaning in that stack compared to most orgs.