Articles on systems, infrastructure, and the craft of building software that lasts.

Articles on systems, infrastructure, and the craft of building software that lasts.

• Jul 5, 2024Engineering

  The Case Against Over-Engineering

• Jun 21, 2024Operations

  Why I Still SSH Into Servers

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  Jul 5, 2024Engineering4 min read

  The Case Against Over-Engineering

  The system that scales to a million users you don't have is a system that's hard to run for the hundred you do.

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  Jun 21, 2024Operations3 min read

  Why I Still SSH Into Servers

  Dashboards abstract the server away. Sometimes you need to be on the box, and knowing how is a skill worth keeping.

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