Design and Specifications Are Not What Is in Your Infrastructure

SD Times reports that design documents and specifications often misrepresent the actual state of production infrastructure, creating false certainty for developers. The article emphasizes that repositories, architecture diagrams, and infrastructure-as-code describe intended systems, not the live environment, urging teams to rely on real-time observability and runtime data.

Most of us understand our source code better than we understand the technology that is actually running in production. We have repositories, architecture diagrams, service catalogs, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, cloud consoles, and observability platforms. Each gives us part of the picture. Together, they can create false certainty because they mostly describe the systems we intended... … continue reading https://sdtimes.com/ai-coding-agents/design-and-specifications-are-not-what-is-in-your-infrastructure/ The post Design and Specifications Are Not What Is in Your Infrastructure https://sdtimes.com/ai-coding-agents/design-and-specifications-are-not-what-is-in-your-infrastructure/ appeared first on SD Times https://sdtimes.com .