Engineering Chaos - About Trust in Unpredictable Systems

摘要

We are ushering in an era of pervasive machine learning, artificial intelligence, and loosely coupled service architectures. The future of software is unpredictable in a systemic sense, increasingly opaque even to the engineers building it We can invest in transparency and systemic understanding, but that expenditure comes at the cost of velocity. Increasing consumer expectations and competitive pressure will overwhelm that equation, and as an industry we need to come to terms with deploying and operating software systems that no human can reason about. If we can't reason about it, how can we have confidence in it?