Infra Proverbs

Source: Dev.to

Infra Proverbs

• Clear is better than clever.
• Automate the toil, not the thinking.
• If you can’t see it, you can’t fix it.
• Serve the workload, not the infrastructure.
• Today’s shortcut is tomorrow’s incident.
• An untested backup is no backup at all.
• Roll out in waves, not floods.
• Hope is not a strategy.
• Be careful what you measure, because that’s exactly what you’ll get.
• The best postmortem is the one you act on.
• Tribal knowledge dies with the tribe.
• The best infrastructure is the kind you can forget about.