The Tested Fortress

A general built a fortress and then asked his enemies to attack it — controlled raids, probing assaults.

"You're inviting attack!"

"I'm discovering weaknesses."

Each attack revealed a flaw. Each flaw was repaired.

When the real siege came, every weakness had been found and fixed.

The fortress held.

That's ten more principles, one hundred more stories:

1. Load Shedding

2. Health Checks

3. Fail-Fast

4. Self-Healing

5. Capacity Planning

6. Rate Limiting

7. Caching

8. Eventual Consistency

9. Versioning and Backwards Compatibility

10. Chaos Engineering / Antifragility

Want me to continue with more — retry strategies, error budgets, blue-green deployments, canary releases, immutable infrastructure, or others?