In 2014 @Pinboard coined "investor storytime" as "when someone pays you to tell them how rich they'll get when you finally put ads on your site".
In prod, "metric storytime" is when we pay devs to make dashboards & alerts and pretend that if the metrics are healthy all is well
I find it amusing and significant that neither one of these examples reflects how actual bridges are tested and built. I think this says something interesting about our lack of understanding about how to make things with software.
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https://www.hbm.com/en/6826/bridge-monitoring-an-example-from-hbm/ … They like their sensors too :) all analogies break down. The shift to bring up a bridge is to get people thinking about how bad it is to consider software healthy from metrics alone
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That said, having built foot traffic bridges at camps across rivers in my youth, there’s def. something to be said about the level of detail and planning and execution that goes into building a bridge to last.. a lot longer than most software does
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