Quotes About Maintenance

Miles Flannery - he's a beast. Very talented, but a brute. He's one of three guys who help us keep the shop maintained, help us set up on location and assist in building something if time is short.

I do a little bit of minimal brow wrangling myself. I get the strays out of the way.

'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.

Isn't that a kind of prayer? The care and maintenance of the web of our noticing, the paying heed?

At some point, the cost of maintaining perfect compatibility outweighs the value to clients.

XP always keeps the system in deployable condition. Problems are not allowed to accumulate.

Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1.

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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

The mechanism by which the stablecoin maintains its peg varies by implementation. The three primary mechanisms are fiat-collateralized, crypto-collateralized, and non-collateralized stablecoins.

the lower the level of documentation, the shorter the shelf life and the greater the maintenance requirements.

When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga.

Of course." She fluffed her hair. "I don't want to brag, but I'm very high maintenance." "Uh, I think low maintenance is what's desirable." "Low maintenance is what's forgettable. You might want to write that down, underline it, circle it and put a star by it. It's golden." With barely a breath, she added, "Now let's find out if we're compatible, shall we?

Of course." She fluffed her hair. "I don't want to brag, but I'm very high maintenance." "Uh, I think low maintenance is what's desirable." "Low maintenance is what's forgettable. You might want to write that down, underline it, circle it and put a star by it. It's golden." With

Low maintenance is what's forgettable. You might want to wright that down, underline it, circle it and put a star by it. It's golden.

technical debt' that is not being paid down. It comes from taking shortcuts, which may make sense in the short-term. But like financial debt, the compounding interest costs grow over time. If an organization doesn't pay down its technical debt, every calorie in the organization can be spent just paying interest, in the form of unplanned work.

It's not the upfront capital that kills you, it's the operations and maintenance on the back end.

How in the hell do you support and secure something that's written in Microsoft Access? When

It's like the free puppy," I continue. "It's not the upfront capital that kills you, it's the operations and maintenance on the back end." Chris cracks up. "Yes, exactly! They'll say, 'The puppy can't quite do everything we need. Can you train it to fly airplanes? It's just a simple matter of coding, right?

Ward Cunningham in 2003. He said, 'technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.

In Operations, we may deal with this problem with the following rule of thumb: When something goes wrong in production, we just reboot the server. If that doesn't work, reboot the server next to it. If that doesn't work, reboot all the servers. If that doesn't work, blame the developers, they're always causing outages.

Mike Rother observed in Toyota Kata that in the absence of improvements, processes don't stay the same—due to chaos and entropy, processes actually degrade over time.

If we know it's that prone to crashing, why do we need to change it?

technical debt is what you feel the next time you want to make a change.