A 1 in 10,000 failure can be a daily annoyance for your users even with just 100 daily active users who each make 10 actions on your app. At “internet scale” a 1 in 10k error frustrates a user every few seconds.
If your tests are so flaky that you need SLOs … your poor users …
Not really, the one I’ve seen most often is a shared resource failing - for example a Gitlab Runner not handling a new VM for a DB so tests fail etc
In fact it’s the same as Chinese martial arts movies too. Anyone seen the Ip Man series?
This other day I was interviewing with a recruiter for a Go dev position, then she asked "what is a map?", couldn't believe such a basic question was being asked, proceeded to explain, then asked her why such a basic question; she said most applicants couldn't tell her what a map was (shock face).
Next question was "what is a hash table?", even more shock...
I'm a Computer Engineer who started to program when I was 12 in a 286.
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Hasn’t hurt me from finding interesting jobs that pay well!