Topic
Legibility
Rebuilding a system that only worked because people remembered how
A system that worked only because a few people remembered how, then rebuilt so the knowledge lived in the infrastructure, not in anyone’s head. (It happened to be a malware-scanning fleet; the shape is one every business has.)
My own operation, built so it never depends on me remembering
Everything I depend on runs on one box I can rebuild from nothing, because I hold my own systems to the standard I sell: written down, reproducible, owned outright. Here’s what that discipline bought me, and what it cost.