Falling below it signals rising maintenance debt and invites maintenance windows before fragility compounds.
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Maintenance Metabolism
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Maintenance Metabolism
The baseline flow of upkeep—patching, cleaning, rehearsing, and caring—that keeps a service alive when nothing is on fire. Healthy maintenance metabolism is budgeted, scheduled, and shared rather than squeezed between crises.
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