When I was thirteen years old, my dad said he would send me money.
He didn’t send it.
When I asked about this, his reply became part of my worldview:
“No one owes you shit.”
The lesson stuck.
Nature ignores your expectations.
Fair is not a law of physics.
We live in the wild, not the zoo.If you want reliability, you have to engineer it.
This calls for backup plans.
Now I pay the price of redundancy when the cost of failure is too high.
This price is the insurance premium.
He eventually sent it. But from that point forward, I paid the premium.
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How do you manage single points of failure?