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“Engineering is designing failure.”
Obviously that has darker tones in aerospace, but I think it applies to even CRUD apps:
- my app will choke and fall over if TPS exceeds 1k/sec
- my app will drop data when we exceed 2TiB in the DB total
- etc.
You’re “engineering” when you design and control those modes in your system.
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“Engineering is designing failure.”
Obviously that has darker tones in aerospace, but I think it applies to even CRUD apps:
- my app will choke and fall over if TPS exceeds 1k/sec
- my app will drop data when we exceed 2TiB in the DB total
- etc.
You’re “engineering” when you design and control those modes in your system.