Systems are made of parts.

If you have too many parts, the odds of one of them failing go up.

If you have too few parts, any single part failing has a larger impact.

THEREFORE,

Arrange the parts in multiple phases over time. Like bulkheads, failures get isolated to a single phase.

Within a phase, use few parts to improve your odds.

Example: use git to generate your site, but host it on Netlify. Now you can build without Netlify and serve traffic without Github.

This post is part of my Freewheeling Apps Devlog.

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