Why would a mistake only affect 4M users and not 400M?
Re:We don’t use a staging environment
by SgtBastard on Sunday April 03, 2022 @07:20PM
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Look at it the other way around - you could have a different outage every single day and as long as that outage only impacted 4.3m users and they were different users each day, it would look like a once-a-year event to the average user.
They’re saying there’s a lot of leeway to break things (in a small way) at scale.
This is pretty common, but not because most employing it have 1.6bn users and 10k engineers; essentially enough scale to throw bodies at problems.