/tags/systems/ Recent content in Systems on A Nickel's Worth Hugo -- gohugo.io en Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/six-audacious-goals-for-your-system/ Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/six-audacious-goals-for-your-system/ With apologies to the authors of the futurist programming notes, here is a set of audacious goals for your system (by which I mean your collection of web sites, webservices, databases, and so on): Make your entire system runnable (for debugging/development) on a single machine, via a single command, …without manual configuration, …without an Internet connection. Demonstrate that your system works flawlessly even when you permanently and unexpectedly unplug the power cable from any one machine (even your most precious database).