People usually think that powerful systems are exciting and always changing.
They picture updates and new features being added all the time.
There are announcements and improvements and optimizations every week.
The truth is that the strongest systems in the world eventually become boring nothing unexpected nothing changes in a big way or the system just works the way it is supposed to.
In systems that run on their own being boring is not a thing it is actually a sign that the system's mature and working well and this is how I think about ROBO when I look at it as part of Fabric Foundation.
When systems are new they are exciting because everything is new and different or the people building them are trying things and the rules are changing all the time.
The system is always doing something and it feels energetic.
Underneath all that activity the system is actually not very stable.
As time goes on systems that are really working well start to look different.
The rules do not change every week or the people running the system do not have to step in all the time.
Things do not go wrong often and the system becomes predictable.
Most people do not get excited about systems.
They like to hear about systems that're fast and growing and doing new things.
The truth is that good infrastructure is about being reliable and working well all the time.
A boring system is one where the people running it do not have to worry about surprises all the time.
The developers who use the system can build on it without having to make changes all the time.
The users trust the system because it works the way every day.
It is hard to make a system like that.
It takes rules that work when the system is very big.
It takes processes that work when things are busy.
It takes coordination that does not fall apart when things get tough.
Most systems that are still experimental are always exciting because they never get to the point where they are working smoothly.
The systems that are successful eventually get to that point.
Systems like ROBO that can run on their own will go through the thing.
At first they are figuring things out trying new behaviors.
On they have to be disciplined and not make unnecessary changes.
They have to protect the fact that they're predictable.
When a system becomes boring it is a deal.
It means that surprises are rare and that is a thing.
In systems that are supposed to support things not having surprises is the best sign of all that things are working well.
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