Last winter I finally moved our oldest service off the queue it had been sitting on since 2019. It was the second-largest job we run, it had been in production for over four years untouched, and I wrote down every decision as it happened so that the next
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Every day, billions of laptops, handsets, sensors and set-top boxes talk to each other across the same tangle of cable, fibre and radio that we built by accident over fifty years. But how does any of it know which box on the far side is the one you meant
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We had one rule going in: no new tooling until the old tooling was understood well enough to explain to somebody who had never seen it. Four weeks later the queue was half the length, and here is what that turned up along the way, plus the three things I
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