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DevOps For Dummies
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DevOps For Dummies

by Emily Freeman
August 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
368 pages
9h 20m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 16

Embracing Failure Successfully

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Failing fast (and well!)

Bullet Embracing a growth mindset

Bullet Reviewing incidents as a team

One of the gifts of software engineering is that the industry has emerged far later than other engineering disciplines. If you look to those older, more experienced industries, you can see many of the problems you face have been solved — or at least identified. (And isn’t it nice to put a name to a problem?)

At some point along the way, executives adopted this concept of fail-fast and tailored it to startups. (You may recognize the term from Eric Ries’s book, The Lean Startup.) Although perhaps overused and misunderstood, failing fast originates from system design. A fail-fast system quickly notifies the administrator of any indication of failure. This requires advanced detection of even a whiff of danger. These systems verify state along the entire process to ensure safety.

In this chapter, I dig into the origins (and misconceptions) of the commonly heard phrase failing fast. Chapter 17 offers ways to prepare for failure and learn from mistakes, and Chapter 18 tackles post-incident reviews.

Failing Fast in Tech

In software, a fail-fast system ...

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