Scalability Rules Quotes

“Don’t accept that the application is too complex or that you release code too often as excuses that you can’t roll back. No sane pilot would take off in an airplane without the ability to land, and no sane engineer would roll code that they could not pull back off in an emergency.”
― Martin L. Abbott, Scalability Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites

“Rule 28—Don’t Rely on QA to Find Mistakes”
― Martin L. Abbott, Scalability Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites

“Systems that are too complex to understand kill organizational productivity and the ease with which you can add engineers or add functionality to your system.”
― Martin L. Abbott, Scalability Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites