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It's even worse than that.

Making troubleshooting skills a profession in itself makes reliability a property of a specific person or team and not a property of the system. The former doesn't scale.

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You’ll never be able to build a (large, complex) system that is consistently, inherently reliable over time and in response to change. You want to aim for such reliability but you still need troubleshooting ability.

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