Security and reliability
Consider this scenario: a rapidly expanding e-commerce startup prioritizes speed-to-market above all else. To launch new features quickly, developers sometimes take shortcuts in architectural choices. Bypassing security best practices, they quickly deploy and fix issues directly in the production environment. This practice worked perfectly fine for the first few years and made leaders very happy due to the sheer speed at which the organization was rapidly acquiring customers.
A few years down the line, as this company amassed a very large customer base, unexpected events started to happen. An employee who single-handedly designed the architecture was about to leave the company, and suddenly everyone realized that the tribal knowledge was not shared with anyone else. Your first thought upon reading this might have identified this as a security issue. But is it?
The site begins to experience slowdowns and intermittent errors during peak traffic, frustrating...
