This is a great example of the wisdom of not overthinking it. I independently rediscovered this trick early in my career using grep, sort and uniq to get the be

This is a great example of the wisdom of not overthinking it. I independently rediscovered this trick early in my career using grep, sort and uniq to get the best up front return. And then later a more sophisticated version with a system that logged to SQLServer. Implementing it as a dev policy is a novelty for me though. I heartily approve.