Here’s the key point: the attempted tradeoff wouldn’t have worked if we’d tried it with the main stack. Like at all. It would have collapsed instantly. “Social distancing” is not actually a feature available on the old stack. No amount of duct tape/paper lips would have helped.
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By which I don’t mean a tech market crisis like the dotcom bust, I mean an actual tech crisis like Y2K. But way harder.
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A race to fix bugs using the tightened feedback loops of production before the world resets the feature flags?
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Do we at least know what else we need to 'finish' it and where finishing it is not building or rolling over to new stuff, but rolling back to the old stuff? Is there a set of principles or a mental model behind navigating this?
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