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Notes on building systems that have to stay up. Plain language, real sources, and the numbers that go with them.

Written by Rahul Kumar Choudhary. Each piece comes out of a system that had to keep running, and the figures on every card are the ones the article has to defend.

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  • 8 min readArchitectureTestingEngineering Practice

    Docs are a wish. Review does not scale. So the rules run.

    Architectural decisions die two ways: people leave, and people tidy up. Documentation survives neither. So I stopped writing the decisions down and started writing them as tests that fail. There are 855 of them, including one that caught a screen describing a connection flow that a good share of the services it connects to do not use.

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