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Why should they? Honestly most of what we do simply does not matter that much. 99.9% uptime is fine in 99.999% of cases.


This is true. But unfortunately the exact same process is used even for critical stuff (the crowdstrike thing for example). Maybe there needs to be a separate swe process for those things as well, just like there is for aviation. This means not using the same dev tooling, which is a lot of effort.




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