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by yabones 49 days ago
"move fast and break things" only sounds good when it's not breaking things in a serious and unfixable way. Maybe we shouldn't take hype mantras as instructive means to an end.
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There really shouldn't be any "serious and unfixable way" to break things, especially in a modern company that uses technology in any meaningful way. The fact it's even possible to get into an unrecoverable state is the primary issue.
That's literally always possible? The idea is to put up walls and fail-safes to minimize the chance.
You should always be able to either undo what you did or rebuild to identical infrastructure and nearly-identical data.