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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

I’ve spent the last decade building and operating large-scale production systems with all sorts of teams, in all sorts of environments. Over the last few years, I’ve tried to find ways of making better, more operable systems. You can make the system as correct, fault-tolerant, and as robust as possible.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

Initially this created havoc in operations, which was responsible for any problems that surfaced once code ‘went live’. In other words, a bazaar-style hardware architecture was vastly superior to a cathedral-style architecture.) Each first stage booster has nine Merlin engines, a fuel storage/dispensing system, and four landing legs.