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Everything survived. Except the explanation. A while ago I was trying to understand why one of our services used Redis. Finding the artifacts wasn't difficult. There was a Jira ticket. A pull request. An architecture document. A Slack discussion. A commit. Nothing had been deleted. Everything was searchable. And yet I still couldn't answer a simple question: Why Redis? Every file answered a different question The Jira ticket answered: What changed? The pull request answered: How was it…
1Key Takeaways
- A while ago I was trying to understand why one of our services used Redis.
- Finding the artifacts wasn't difficult.
- And yet I still couldn't answer a simple question: Why Redis?
- Every file answered a different question The Jira ticket answered: What changed?
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that a while ago I was trying to understand why one of our services used Redis.
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