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IMO if you can't cold start it you probably can't develop against it very quickly. Then again we couldn't cold start a supply chain or a semi fab or humanity i

IMO if you can't cold start it you probably can't develop against it very quickly. Then again we couldn't cold start a supply chain or a semi fab or humanity itself so maybe that's the default.

JohnFen 3y ago
Every new semi fab that comes online was cold-started.
- anotherhue 3y ago
  With the output of the prior generations was my point.
bamfly 3y ago
You may enjoy the first episode of James Burke's Connections ("The Trigger Effect"), if you've not seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOb3Dilzjc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOb3Dilzjc
- anotherhue 3y ago
  I enjoyed the one in the Witness but hadn't gotten around to the rest, thanks for the excellent recommendation! https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e10 https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e10
- potmat 3y ago
  Still the best non-fiction TV ever produced in my opinion (the whole series I mean).
  - dredmorbius 3y ago
    The Day the Universe Changed (also by Burke) was also exceptionally good. Similar premise, but focusing more on philosophy and understanding, and not tracking linearly through time. There were another two Connections mini-series, though they were IMO not up to the mark of the first. Good, but not truly excellent.
hinkley 3y ago
My comfort level with an architecture is always vastly improved by being able to run a toy version of the entire system on a developer box. It doesn't just speak well for disaster recovery prospects (both the feasibility of doing it and the density of developers who could possibly pull such a thing off), it's also very, very useful for speculative development. When you make a high barrier to entry of making large modifications to the system, you also tend to create an underclass of developers, who never really get to understand how the system works. What if we split these two microservices into three, or combined these three into two? That's a pretty common question, that only gets asked if you know you won't get laughed out of the room for suggesting it.

IMO if you can't cold start it you probably can't develop against it very quickly. Then again we couldn't cold start a supply chain or a semi fab or humanity itself so maybe that's the default.

JohnFen 3y ago

Every new semi fab that comes online was cold-started.

anotherhue 3y ago
With the output of the prior generations was my point.

bamfly 3y ago

You may enjoy the first episode of James Burke's Connections ("The Trigger Effect"), if you've not seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOb3Dilzjc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOb3Dilzjc

anotherhue 3y ago
I enjoyed the one in the Witness but hadn't gotten around to the rest, thanks for the excellent recommendation! https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e10 https://archive.org/details/james-burke-connections_s01e10
potmat 3y ago
Still the best non-fiction TV ever produced in my opinion (the whole series I mean).
- dredmorbius 3y ago
  The Day the Universe Changed (also by Burke) was also exceptionally good. Similar premise, but focusing more on philosophy and understanding, and not tracking linearly through time. There were another two Connections mini-series, though they were IMO not up to the mark of the first. Good, but not truly excellent.

hinkley 3y ago

My comfort level with an architecture is always vastly improved by being able to run a toy version of the entire system on a developer box. It doesn't just speak well for disaster recovery prospects (both the feasibility of doing it and the density of developers who could possibly pull such a thing off), it's also very, very useful for speculative development. When you make a high barrier to entry of making large modifications to the system, you also tend to create an underclass of developers, who never really get to understand how the system works. What if we split these two microservices into three, or combined these three into two? That's a pretty common question, that only gets asked if you know you won't get laughed out of the room for suggesting it.