Excellence Is a Habit
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- Excellence is a habit formed by repeated actions, as illustrated by Aristotle's philosophy.
- NASA's Apollo and Artemis missions exemplify how consistent practice and preparation lead to success and resilience.
- Regular practice, such as DevOps pipelines and Infrastructure-as-code, is crucial in software development to handle routine tasks and failures smoothly.
- Chaos Engineering and Disaster Recovery exercises are necessary to prepare systems for unexpected issues and prevent atrophy of problem-solving skills.
- The Artemis II mission highlights the importance of instrumentation, context, and cross-referencing data to differentiate between false alarms and real problems.
- Limiting single-points-of-failure and having backup solutions ensures system resilience, as seen in the toilet failure on Artemis II.
- Degraded functionality during failures is a form of success, allowing continuous service instead of complete breakdown.
- Resilience is built through repetition, simulation, and anticipation of problems before they occur.