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low-end versions of the new OS should be lean enough to run on a ~$1 MCU (these days ~=4K RAM, 32K ROM)

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last N minutes of the life of the production program before crashing, should be replayable on my development box.

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we’re using operating systems which were designed whopping 40-50 years from now

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Do not communicate by sharing memory; instead, share memory by communicating.

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trying to optimize out a 3e-7 performance hit is very rarely worth the trouble.

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With 4S/4U boxes having typical MTBFs of 3–5 years, the next question we should ask ourselves, is “Hey, will we really be able to write software which crashes much more rarely than that?”

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Each server is only as secure as its admin

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For cheaper servers, the difference between Windows and Linux can eat as much as 50% of the server rental price (though for those servers which are more or less optimal price-performance-wise observed difference was closer to 20-30%).