Comment by ses1984
18 hours ago
Engineering controls basically mean making it impossible to do something in a way that results in catastrophe.
18 hours ago
Engineering controls basically mean making it impossible to do something in a way that results in catastrophe.
Good point.
My experience is that everyone thinks their defensive controls are air tight until inevitably they're going through a post-mortem on a failure where someone says, "Whelp...Murphy's Law..."
Pushing buggy software that could result in some expected nonzero number of incidents per year can be done as an intentional tradeoff, any time the cost of incidents is lower than the opportunity cost of moving fast.
Dare I say that most software engineers literally plan to hit Murphy's Law?
If you build websites, and you never get hit by Murphy's Law, it could mean you are being too conservative.
If you build bridges, your job is to make sure you never get hit by Murphy's Law.