Ah yes, the beautiful paradox of scale. That "one in a billion" edge case you dismissed in code review? Congrats, at a billion transactions per week, you're now guaranteed to hit it every single week. It's like Murphy's Law got a performance upgrade. Your "this will never happen" becomes "this happens every Tuesday at 2 PM." Scale doesn't just amplify your success—it weaponizes your assumptions and turns theoretical impossibilities into production incidents with SLAs attached.
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