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Root out dependency

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Root out dependency

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- Pets are all unique. We give them names, they're all cute and so on. It's kind of like what we do with traditional servers, really, each has a name. This one has a utility drive, it's unique. This one does not, it's unique. This one's running one version of the software, this one's not, how cute. Well, not really. Because wherever we have these variations, we must meet and talk about stuff. When we must change something, or where we have a release, or we have a problem, it takes longer to figure out problems, incidents, risks and so on. It adds overhead all the way up and down the stack, so it's not so cute. What we want is cattle. Everything looks the same. As with the cloud and infrastructure's code, where the question, how is it unique, isn't needed as each is the same. Reducing unnecessary variation independencies is key to successfully IDLE. As their presence in development and delivery erodes product…

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