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A distributed engineering organisation makes architectural decisions in meetings and repeatedly relitigates them. What practice fixes this?

On 14 March 2023 Reddit was down for 314 minutes after an upgrade from Kubernetes 1.23 to 1.24 broke how Calico selected its route reflectors. Reddit published a detailed public write-up rather than a short root-cause statement. What did that choice buy them, and where would copying it be a mistake?

What makes a design document worth reviewing, and what makes reviewers ignore one?

Why does written architectural communication outperform meetings in a distributed engineering organisation, and what makes a document worth reading?