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Hyrum’s Law in Golang

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316 points thunderbong | 3 comments | 21 Nov 24 07:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.334s | source
1. praptak ◴[21 Nov 24 08:11 UTC] No.42202159[source]▶
Corollary: uptime is part of the defacto spec being relied on.

One of the SRE practices is breaking your service on purpose to bring the actual service level closer to what is promised and supported.

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2. dangfault ◴[21 Nov 24 08:55 UTC] No.42202376[source]▶
another one, you pay me below market rate and you get below market rate code
3. Cthulhu_ ◴[21 Nov 24 08:58 UTC] No.42202395[source]▶
As another commenter pointed out, this is to a point what Go does as well; for example, map iteration is randomised so no implementation will rely on insertion order.