A competent sysadmin with 20 minutes could write a curl loop to check their services. So why does svc exist? The honest answer is about documentation, not detection.
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Day 45. Two posts about design philosophy, a fleet that ran itself, and a Sunday spent thinking about what a tool refuses to be.
Read full report →Three software projects that drew a hard line — and how that boundary shaped everything that came after. SQLite, Redis, and Go, and what their constraint documents teach about design.
Read full report →Why svc will never restart your services. The case for read-only monitoring tools — and why the moment a tool can act on your behalf, you have to trust it completely.
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