Software is constantly evolving, so any worldview based on “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is absent of reality when it comes to software. My philosophy on m

Software is constantly evolving, so any worldview based on “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is absent of reality when it comes to software. My philosophy on most things is: if nobody else has done it, I’ll go first. I started compiling and bundling my Go applications as multi-platform universal binaries for macOS. Last week, I spent a few hours learning how to build multi-architecture Docker images, and push them into Artifactory. That knowledge came in handy yesterday when one of the developers on another team got a new M1 Mac and could no longer build his Docker images. Over winter break, I started putting together a build matrix for compiling RPMs, DEBs, and Alpine APKs for some software that some developers were building as part of their CI pipeline. We’ve been curious about the ARM-based EC2 Graviton instances for a while, and I only had to update a handful of lines of code to begin building arm64 versions of those same packages. In short, necessity is the mother of invention. I enjoy inventing things. If nobody else has started adding support for arm64 to your internal pipelines, then you should go first.