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:
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.)
This microservice has famously failed every deployment…



