Release It Book Club Chapter 3: Major Dangers to System Longevity

Nygard states that “the major dangers to your system’s longevity are memory leaks and data growth.” Can you think of other major dangers to system longevity?

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I have the advantage of reading ahead - there’s a whole chapter on stability antipatterns - but I think it’s interesting that this statement focuses on data issues. I suppose compute-related failures are more obvious and visible: if you accidentally wrote code that contains an infinite loop or is otherwise inefficient it will be more readily caught in testing.