#practices #rant

I've worked on computer systems in many different environments: cloud-native serverless functions, self-managed virtual servers, embedded devices, pushing code for on-prem bare-metal racks that I'm not allowed to look at, much less touch. My experience across all these projects has falsified a lot of opinions, but there's one thing I believed when I first started coding and still believe now, perhaps more than ever:

You need to be able to run the damn code.