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It's not your fault

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Occasionally there’s a thread on tech twitter inviting people, senior developers especially, to share about a time they broke production.

It's not your fault 2022-03-29 22:25:09 +0200 +0200 Occasionally there's a thread on tech twitter inviting people, senior developers especially, to share about a time they broke production. I like these threads for two reasons. First, because production breakage usually involves a bizarre constellation of accidents and coincidences that are interesting to think through. Second, because in an industry with a lot of egos and mythology about software engineering, it's good for newer people to see that mistakes happen, all the time, even by (especially by!) experienced people who've been around fo

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