Some form of tree-shaking type of thing would probably be quite handy for images, but yeah I'm a bit wary here as well. First thought would be what happens when it hits Out-of-Memory, DNS timeout, or loses network connectivity or another edge case that totally happens in Production.

Removing those code paths would not be a good thing, but I guess if you build your apps right you could just have your container orchestration system recover by replacing the Pod.

I wouldn't want anything killing pods every time there's a network timeout. That sounds like a quick way to turn a tiny problem into a huge problem.

I am disappoint.

Glad to see you posting in here, Matt. Your blog post on staying with the USDS popped up a week or so back for me in some subreddit and inspired me put in an application (didn't even know it was a "thing" before that).

Seems like a great opportunity to solve some interesting problems, but more importantly make an impact.

Glad to see you guys are continuing moving along with Percy. Really helped me out when I implemented it at a previous gig a little after Percy launched.

Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull It's the story of Pixar and there's so many things I enjoyed about this book. It helped validate for me many of my instincts in running a creative business.

The Martian by Andy Weir I very much enjoyed the story and how it was all approached.

Seven Eves by Neil Stephenson Similar to his other books (Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon) I've gifted these a few times. I really enjoy his method of storytelling and his stories appeal to the geek in me as well.

Depending on the nature of your product and your rewrites in my experience a customer facing system that has parts improved in parts can be interpreted as not solving the right problems (if something UI related is being updated).

The best thing I could say about it is that when approaching behind-the-scenes pieces this is my preferred approach, but for customer-facing pieces I prefer (and have had better reception on updates) to update those pieces as a whole. But again, this depends on the complexity, updating a small piece such as a button should not require a large change but updating the layout or styling would require more significant updates.