Systems

This was originally shared with the engineering org of a company I worked for at the time. It’s my stream of consciousness about the type of system my team was building at the time. Reproducing here without modifications, enjoy the chaos of my unedited remblings.

Team,

It became clear to me in the last few days that there’s not enough clarity about what we’re trying to build.

We keep talking about relatively small and specific things, but we never discuss the philosophy behind it all. What type of system are we building? Can’t we just install Puppet and Terraform and call it done? And focus instead on something more glamorous than spinning VMs?