Prodverbs: Production Proverbs

A collection of observations about production distributed systems.

• Hyrum's Law
• Hope is not a strategy
• When in doubt, the SLO is the status quo
• Your backups are only as good as your last restore
• Global systems fail globally
• Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security
• Turndowns, not just deprecations
• Incomplete migrations are technical debt
• Improving Reliability Doesn't Always

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