5.4 Steady State
Rogetâs Thesaurus (3rd ed.) offers the following definition for the word fiddling: âTo handle something idly, ignorantly, or destructively.â It offers helpful synonyms such as fool, meddle, tamper, tinker, and monkey. Fiddling is often followed by the âohnosecondâ: that very short moment in time during which you realize that you have pressed the wrong key and brought down a server, deleted vital data, or otherwise damaged the peace and harmony of stable operations.
Every single time a human touches a server is an opportunity for unforced errors.[51]
Itâs best to keep people off of production systems to the greatest ...
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