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04Precedent · how it went for them

The situation“I have to ship something this week and it's not ready.”

Leaders who made the same call — what each did, and how it went.

WorkedShouldn’t have been tried

Worked · Charity Majors, on deploys versus releases, 2016 onwards

The second half of Charity Majors's engineering argument, codified across her charity.wtf blog and repeated in conference talks, is about separating two operations most teams conflate: deploying code and releasing a feature.

Shouldn’t have been tried · Calxeda, 2011–2013

Calxeda built low-power ARM-based servers at a time when the idea was genuinely ahead of its era — microservers that would use a fraction of the power of conventional data centre hardware.