Posts Tagged "Reliability"

Load-Bearing Humans

A system that only keeps running because a person is continuously holding it up is not working. The person is working. The system is on life support. 'Working' is one more overloaded word, and most of the time it quietly means 'works as long as the right human is standing there.'

Nice People Who Give Us Money

We are not paid to solve interesting engineering problems. We are paid to make products that make customers happy, and a customer is a nice person who gives us money. Under that definition, monitoring, testing, deployment, security, and resilience are not 'non-functional requirements.' They are the function.