That being said, if you're just beginning and looking for your market fit, or pitching to investors with a flashy demo, it doesn't need to be an architectural miracle, in fact it will waste your time.
> I’ve had to question the value of code a lot over the last couple of years, and this leak continues to reinforce the notion that I’ve vastly overestimated it my entire career.
Now we could be moments away from hitting any of the rules described on https://how.complexsystems.fail, but if you’d asked me a year ago how long it would take to get there with people working this way I would have definitely taken the under. That difference in what I believed and what I see with my own two eyes is what has me questioning my priors, because my calibration seems to need readjustment (maybe large or maybe small) for the world of software we’re in right now.
Extra one (3) We are getting super lenient with major failures and having a services that has only one 9 on reliability charts as norm.