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Re:Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Mon... by __turbobrew__ on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:57PM (#35818552)
Average tenure at most companies is 2/3 years. You cannot rely on people learning from mistakes because there are always new people, you need to make it so they cannot make mistakes or if they make a mistake it isn’t going to block the whole company from executing.
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Re:Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Mon... by withinboredom on Thursday May 04, 2023 @01:05PM (#35818693)
Organizations learn, it gets embedded in the culture, tooling, and automation. I shared some of the rules that were embedded in our organization via style guides and onboarding.

There were a thousand automated checks to prevent you from doing the same thing as someone else that caused downtime in the past. It was virtually impossible to commit code that deleted/truncated a table, for example.

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