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“The only thing worse than fixing the wrong thing is leaving an attempt to fix the wrong thing unfinished. Half-finished initiatives create confusing, poorly documented, and harder to maintain systems.”
― Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems
― Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems
“The simplest and least threatening of failure drills is to restore from backup. Remember, if an organization has never restored from backup, it does not have working backups. Waiting for an actual outage to figure that out is not a safer strategy than running a failure drill at a time you've chosen, supervised by your most experienced engineers.
You can justify any failure test the same way. Is it better to wait for something to fail and hope you have the right resources and expertise at the ready? Or is it better to trigger failure at a time when you can plan resources, expertise, and impact in advance? You don't know that something doesn't work the way you intended it to until you try it.”
― Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems
You can justify any failure test the same way. Is it better to wait for something to fail and hope you have the right resources and expertise at the ready? Or is it better to trigger failure at a time when you can plan resources, expertise, and impact in advance? You don't know that something doesn't work the way you intended it to until you try it.”
― Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems
“As a company iterates to improve a certain characteristic of the product, it ultimately makes the product less desirable for the group of existing customers. Companies do this with the hope that a larger group of new customers will make that loss irrelevant.”
― Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems
― Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems
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