This article is part of a series about complexity metrics:

The alarm rings suddenly and intensely, waking you up from the food coma you were getting into. Red lights are on, sign of a major crisis. What an idea to eat a massive burger on a release day!

Everybody’s running in every direction, but nobody seems to go anywhere. Developers begin to type frenetically some nonsense in their terminals. You glance at the metrics: the CI is in the red, the logs are nuts, the dependency graph is through the rough. Everything’s crashing.