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The most boring service in the stack

The most reliable part of a stack is rarely the part anyone shows off. It has no clever layer to point at. That is the whole reason it never breaks.

  • Payment service remained unchanged for four years
  • Black Friday caused system failures
  • Simplicity avoided unnecessary complexity

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