infrastructure
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⚖️ Reliability tradeoffs
Recently, one of our servers running Arch Linux refused to boot after updates. The fix was to comment out a line in the /etc/default/grub file. It took about 15 minutes to find and everything was done in a rescue terminal — no need to boot …
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🏆 What is the ultimate platform success?
The ultimate platform success is when an internal platform turns into a sellable product/service, or an open source project. Perhaps some companies succeed by starting out building a platform as a product, but the greatest platform successe…
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⚖️ Technical debt compounds with you doing nothing
Technical debt is like any other kind of debt – it accrues when nothing is done. This is perhaps the most insidious aspect of debt. How does technical debt work? Mainly that software (and technology in general) moves on (especially OSS), an…