πŸ’‘ Whole Company on a Raspberry Pi Cluster

Once, I had a team that took down a monolith.
Not with brute force, but with precision.

In months, we erased 90% of the codeβ€”no migrations, no breakages.
Stripped the bloat, cut dependencies, and ended up with something wild:

πŸš€ A Raspberry Pi cluster running the entire system.
Five tiny machines. Millions of requests.
Features built in ~90 minutes, not months.
No "senior" devs needed. No we needed. Pure engineering efficiency.

PROD needed bigger iron for scale, but the lesson stuck:
βœ… Less code β†’ Less complexity β†’ Less maintenance.
βœ… Running 10+ years - never turned into legacy.
βœ… PMs even tweak features via ugly but effective XML (DX > UX πŸ˜…).

This is real engineering.

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@LunaFreyja I absolutely love this! Would love to see how you built it!
@spufidoo the PI cluster was a good demonstration but I don’t think it makes sense nowadays. But what still makes sense is to build good software. Not bloated Glue code. I am on a small project to help building modern, functional apps now https://github.com/NanoNative/nano sometimes I think we should not even code anymore. It’s always the same what we do πŸ˜…
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