Way back in 2010, a guy named Patrick wrote a post about Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. I believe it may have been the first of its kind, and led to many subsequent authors coming up with similar “Falsehoods…” on all different kinds of topics. Somewhere along the way, Awesome Falsehood was created - *"*A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in." Per the site:
“…Falsehood articles are a suite of wordy unit-tests covering extensive edge-cases provided by real-world usage.”
You may be poking through these articles and thinking “Wouldn’t it be cool if we had one of these for LinkedIn things?” Well, gentle reader, look no further:
Falsehoods Engineers Believe About Availability At LinkedIn
Conceived and primarily authored by Brian Thomas(with a handful of contributions from other folks), this is a pretty good list of the kinds of things you should be aware of if you touch LinkedIn services as a part of your day-to-day. …or even if you don’t “touch” them directly but care about them working, generally.
Putting on my SRE hat (hmm…did I ever really take it off?) I think it’s also interesting to view this as being prescriptive of things we could be doing better - a todo list of items that would make our site more reliable (and our lives better) if we started crossing some of them off.