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In a mature organization these are really good ways to expand your breadth and depth of knowledge. You can learn a lot about how things scale (or don't scale) based on design patterns and when things fail into the strange "that shouldn't happen" type category.

"Hi, I'm Jeff Bezos, and this is 'Prime Day Cascade Failures in Sable'!"

"Hi, I'm Equifax, and this is 'Enabling mass-scale identity theft!'"

My favorite disaster of all time:

http://fortune.com/2012/08/02/why-knight-lost-440-million-in...

More details with references: https://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-caution...