π‘ 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 codeβno migrations, no breakages.
Stripped the bloat, cut dependencies, and ended up with something wild:
π 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:
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Less code β Less complexity β Less maintenance.
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Running 10+ years - never turned into legacy.
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PMs even tweak features via ugly but effective XML (DX > UX π
).
This is real engineering.
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