Code in the Wild vs the Zoo

00:19:03 — Your Code Lives in the Wild but Is Written in a Zoo

Chaotic behaviors in systems are highly sensitive to initial state: different starting conditions can push pressure to completely different parts of the system. The key metaphor is that your code lives in the wild but you write it in a zoo. Development is an artificial environment where the range of inputs is extremely limited compared to what production will deliver. If your code is built expecting chaos to be limited, chaos will limit your code.