Edge Computing Is Finally Living Up to the Hype

The most useful internal tools are rarely impressive. They are small, specific, and owned by the people who use them daily.

Every few years the industry rediscovers the same lesson: the systems that survive are the ones that are easy to understand at three in the morning when something breaks.

What this means in practice

None of these ideas are new. What is new is how expensive it has become to ignore them at scale.