3 years ago

I stumbled on this expression a couple of years back while reading some tech book. When I read it, it sounded OK; nothing too exciting or cool about that.

While you are recovering from the first mistake — and you are now already lower in altitude — what happens if you make another slip-up?

I believe, inherently, most of us are risk-takers and we would like to push the envelope now-and-then to test our limit (in this case, test our application limit — keeping error-budget in mind).

It even applies in many other different aspects: from dealing with hardware failures to, data redundancy, capacity planning, performing retries in your service calls, reducing toil, risk management, and disaster planning.