Hacker Laws

Hutber's Law

Hutber's Law on Wikipedia

Improvement means deterioration.

(Patrick Hutber)

This law suggests that improvements to a system will lead to deterioration in other parts, or it will hide other deterioration, leading overall to a degradation from the current state of the system.

For example, a decrease in response latency for a particular end-point could cause increased throughput and capacity issues further along in a request flow, affecting an entirely different sub-system.