Hail the Maintainers\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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I am finally clearing out some old Instapaper articles. One that I really enjoyed was Andrew Russell’s examination of our civilizational obsession with “innovation” at the expense of maintenance and sustainable operability. This is something we in cloud services learned fairly recently. 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