Expanding System Lifespan
Learn about the system's longevity and factors that affect it.
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System longevity
The major dangers to any system’s longevity are memory leaks and data growth. Both kinds of sludge can stop a system in production and both are rarely caught during testing.
Testing makes problems visible so we can fix them. Following Murphy’s Law, whatever we do not test against will happen. Therefore, if we do not test for crashes right after midnight or out-of-memory errors in the application’s forty-ninth hour of ...