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Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee

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by joshkel

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Reading this article has given me a profound realization: As a software user, I don't want the products I use to ship new features at "three, five, or ten times what they shipped a year ago," at the expense of "probabilistic" stability and reliability.
I want software that works.
Yet the economics of the software industry, and perhaps the economy as a whole, seem to inexorably push toward the former.

by zx8080

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> We are rapidly moving from deterministic engineering to probabilistic engineering, and our tools, our training, and our organizational instincts are still built for the old paradigm.
There's some bad news: it's never been a non-probablistic engineering.
A key word is Failt-tolerance.
The engineering has never been fully deterministic. Same as running the systems.
So nothing's changed in this area.