Re:Thanks HN: Lessons learned after Google nearly killed my ...
by phist_mcgee on Sunday March 07, 2021 @12:22AM
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It's certainly ok for things to break if it is a deliberate design change. Visual regression testing in your build/deployment pipeline already can flag a change to you as part of a github merge, I don't see why we can't have similar tooling in that pipeline that focuses on efficiency.
But the key thing for me is the "goal" montioring. So for ecommerce it's orders but for other systems it's different. That's the thing I really want to monitor. If other things break they'll affect those so you can detect lots of failures. The only issue is finding out what the cause is. But first I'll improve the anomaly detection a bunch before looking into root cause detection.