Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers do to ensure small bugs don't take down systems.

There were no warnings or red lights, because the process simply hadn’t run in the first place. And so a new, time-consuming activity was added to the data analytics stack: manually checking the database each morning to make sure everything had functioned properly.

Negative engineering is “insurance as code”

Negative engineering is the time-consuming and sometimes frustrating work that engineers undertake to ensure the success of their primary objectives.