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bus factor
2 articles tagged bus-factor.
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Pinning is a consent control, not a blast-radius control
149 of 149 consumers of one shared Terraform module are pinned to a fixed reference — and still sit on six versions. Pinning decides whether a change reaches you, never who it reaches.
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Your senior engineer just left. Your bus factor was measuring the wrong thing.
A senior leaves and the code stays readable. What walks out is the cross-repo dependency map they held in their head — the part your bus factor, measured from commits, never counted.