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Decades later I'm tuning YAML files that trigger ansible runs on CIs that compile docker images in which we embed hundreds of npm packages that get transpiled from typescript. Which gets released to cloud serverless edge thingies that store stuff in a database and on some block storage. All to serve a page that's similar in information and feature-... See more

From the tech startup world, here is an example of karma and re-birth in microcosm, well nanocosm:

The biggest thing for me is that I never want to have to solve the same problem twice, ever.

... Defaulting to putting them in public, partly it’s sort of an insurance scheme.

I’ve worked for companies where I did everything in private. And then I le

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Microsoft was another concern. But they also were very, very slow. They finally today have a product called SharePoint, which is somewhat similar to the ArsDigita Community System. One thing that we did which enabled us to be much, much faster than our competitors was that we developed on and released our software from running real-world systems. F

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Another observation I’ve made is that starting with a performant core can ultimately drastically simplify the architecture of a software project, relative to a given level of functionality.

• Terraform: I manage most of my cloud infrastructure with Terraform. I declare EKS clusters, S3 buckets, roles, and RDS instances in my Terraform manifests. The state is sync'ed to an encrypted S3 bucket. This avoids getting into trouble in case something happens to my development laptop.


• Docker: I build everything as Docker images. Even stateful com

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