Notes
Perspectives on building systems that have to be right.
Short, edited pieces from our engineers on the parts of the work that rarely make it into a proposal — where automation genuinely helps, where it hides a decision, and why a migration is finished only when two systems agree.
When automation is the wrong answer
Automation is useful when a careful task keeps returning. It is less useful when someone is trying to avoid making a decision.
Read the noteA migration is a conversation with old decisions
Moving data sounds like moving information from one place to another. In practice it is a long negotiation with years of choices nobody wrote down.
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