VibeChefField notes by John Hughes Wilcox
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Kitchen ops

Service as a distributed system: prep, throughput, handoffs, and what breaks under load.

A kitchen is a system that cannot go down, run by tired people, under a load nobody controls. The operational patterns that survive there tend to be the ones worth stealing for software.

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Method

Mise en place is systems thinking

Twenty years of setting up a station taught me more about building software than any tutorial did. The overlap is not a metaphor.

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