Average is not all you need
March 14, 2026We use averages everywhere in daily life. The average temperature in summer, your average commute time to work, average meat prices at the market, etc. But are they good enough for software metrics?
We use averages everywhere in daily life. The average temperature in summer, your average commute time to work, average meat prices at the market, etc. But are they good enough for software metrics?
When a system is deployed to the wild, there will anyways be stuff that fails in unexpected ways, meaning failure is inevitable because of unknown unknowns.
When there is no monitoring, there is no launch... also, there is no lunch 🥘😁.