Omnipresent Risks
Hope is not a strategy:
https://sre.google/sre-book/lessons-learned/
Incidents are inevitable because of the omnipresent risks inherent to distributed systems. To prepare yourself, start with Lorin Hochstein’s overview of the major problem areas that contribute to essential complexity and unavoidable risk:
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/29/omnipresent-availability-risks-in-cloud-software/