“When microservices came out, you didn’t start by moving your biggest thing, you started to build a small service that didn’t really matter… okay to learn from it when it goes down”
The Pragmatic Engineer · Building resilient systems with Sam Newman
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What was described
When trying a new AI-driven component, pick a small service that isn’t on the critical latency path and rewrite it with AI as a pilot
Said nearby on the same subject
“Rewriting even one page with specific, unambiguous language about your ideal client and your services is a small project you could realistically finish this month”
“We’ve got great test coverage… not on the critical path… we have really good observability data and well-defined SLOs… we can start running it as a factory now”
“Making sure that every brief that's submitted in state court has either a footnote or a certificate disclosing the use of artificial intelligence as required by this new law”
“I'm going to pick one critical vendor this week. I'm going to review his access. I'm going to try to understand everything that lies in between the vendor tool and my client sites.”
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