Quoting Graham Christensen, Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems, 2020

The nugget here is the regular and indiscriminate removal of system state. Destroying the whole server doesn’t leave you much room to forget the little tweaks you made along the way.
— Graham Christensen, Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems, 2020

10:02pm on September 6, 2025 from Appledore, England


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