The Reliability Leaderboard

How I lost my top spot in 23 minutes.

Today is deployment day.

I’ve been nominated to oversee the deployment of one of our microservices for two reasons:

1. I’m currently ranking first in the reliability leaderboard! There has been no incident under my watch for the past month. (Don’t be impressed, I’ve just returned from a three-week leave.)

2. This microservice has famously failed every deployment…