I read another tech take just now that essentially says
"everything the [aerospace|car|construction|...] industry has learned the hard way with regards to designing com0lex systems safely is wrong, so let's just throw those lessons away"
It hurts in how mind-numbingly stupid that is.
There are differences, sure. But the differences people think of as truths are largely wrong. Most notably, there's nothing intrinsically different about a complex system involving tonnes of metal...
... suspended in air, and a complex system consisting of globally orchestrated microservices, *as a system*.
The problem is, people in tech don't tend to have a systems thinking background. It's something they're thrust into and figure out, and that's part of why we chase silver bullets: someone threw something against a wall that stuck long enough, and we call it best practice. Until it fails, and the next accidentally discovered thing takes its place.
Mind you, the major difference...
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