The Perils of Simplistic Decisions in a Connected World | ✉️ #67
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In recent days, we’ve witnessed the consequences of forgetting how interconnected everything truly is. A single individual—in this case, the President of the United States—decided unilaterally to break all commercial rules, imposing tariffs on nearly every country in the world (with the puzzling exceptions of North Korea and Russia). The reasoning behind this move remains unclear, beyond the fantastical idea of relocating all global factories to the U.S.
This plan was built on simplistic assumptions: that tariffs wouldn’t trigger inflation, that the dollar would remain unaffected, and that global perceptions of U.S. bonds and currency would stay unchanged.
But this is where the problem lies—simplistic designs lead to catastrophic outcomes. Flawed architecture always ends in chaos, and chaos breeds disorder and fear. In this case, the VIX surged wildly, while 10- and 30-year bond yields spiked.
The same principle applies to product design: if you don’t know how to architect a solution, the results will be disastrous. That’s why it’s critical to consult professionals before making major decisions. At mkdev, we bring years of experience working with Europe’s largest companies—designing their infrastructure and, more recently, guiding their AI strategies. So if you want to avoid sending your IT into turmoil (or triggering your own "VIX moment"), think carefully before you act.
What We've Shared
DevOps Accents #59: Semaphore Going Open Source with Darko Fabijan from Semaphore CI. In episode 59 of DevOps Accents, friend of the podcast Darko Fabijan is back to talk about the Community Edition of Semaphore CI. Why did Semaphore go Open Source, what had to be done to do so, and what awaits us going forward?
What Are High Risk AI Systems, as explained by Paul Larsen in episode 58 of DA.
And on the website we have two new articles:
Free and Lightning-Fast IP Geolocation From a CDN Provider is the first article in a new series by Kirill Shirinkin. Kirill demonstrates how to leverage your CDN for seamless IP-based geolocation. Learn to configure Cloudflare and Amazon CloudFront to deliver visitor location data directly via HTTP headers, streamlining your analytics and location-based services, and eliminating the need for external APIs.
What’s Wrong With Docker? Introduction to the Dockerless Course: our long time readers and viewers will be familiar with the concept of Dockerless. Our most popular course will now also be available as a series of articles, starting this week with the introduction.
The 68th mkdev dispatch of the year will arrive on Friday, April 25th. See you next time!