That also means resisting the temptation to make ourselves indispensable. Being the person everyone has to call when something breaks can feel like a sign that we are contributing something important, but [...] the goal should be to make ourselves increasingly unnecessary by making the knowledge we carry increasingly available to other people.

What a beautiful sentiment. Very well said.

To my chagrin, I've seen the "private sector" learning this lesson very well, with the practice of codifying configurations of machines and networks in "infrastructure as code" documents. Though these still require special training to decipher and apply, they make people (or workers) much easier to replace.

Although, I'm not sure I want reproduce the patterns I've learned from the corporate world, I'm curious if there's merit to using some of this technology to make infrastructure more easily "spin-up-able. " Or maybe SH hardware will vary too much to make something like OpenTofu useful in a non-cloud setting.

I thought this was an article, but I'm glad I checked it out. It looks like a really very well put together course (too comprehensive to call it tutorial). With guides for people who just want to learn part of the stuff. Had no time to dig deeper, but if you (want to) selfhost and are active in building resilience go have a look.

This is truly an amazing guide on building resilient systems. It's so common for people to ignore human based failure domains too!

That said some of the early recommendations suggest fully mapping dependencies such as system accounts, payment accounts, etc. I've looked at that from the "asCode" side but always felt quite lacking. With digital twin modeling of an orginization being a highly academic work (how do you truly capture the reality right?) and smart contracts such DAOs being a heavy tool for enforcement. I was just wondering if you have recommendation for anything or templates?

If not I might try to templatize something based on those lessons myself just to see if there is an quick start way for people to do this.

Pretty sure that whole thing was generated by AI

thank you!!!!!