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What If a Two-Pizza Team Supported Several Domains?

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  The two-pizza team is a useful unit of ownership, bold statement, I don't think this changes with agents, HOWEVER!, with a small group you can make decisions, ship, and respond when something breaks, and you don't step on each others toes, especially since each engineer had 3-5 agents running in parallel. The familiar version of that model often binds one team to one product or project, and that is the change I see emerging. As organizations take on more work at once with our AI agents, that can leave every new project rebuilding the same operational muscle: deployment paths, alerts, incident response, and the knowledge needed to keep a service healthy. I think a two-pizza team to help support a broader scope is inevitable and should be encouraged. This means there is another way to organize some of that work. A two pizza team (8-10) could support several projects in parallel by owning the shared operating system around them. Its output would be reliable paths to production ...
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Car Camping with a 1 year old

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Can it be done? Why yes, yes it can. Our little one just turned 14 months and we had a 4 day weekend coming up in late August. It is a perfect time of year for camping in Wisconsin.  The days are getting shorter, the nights are cool, and the days are tolerable. Here are some tips we learned along the way. The Food One thing I noticed that was different than just camping as a couple is all the prep work. Cassi planned, A LOT! She is simply amazing at this sort of activity. We, well really she, food prepped for every single meal, snack, etc... Everything was precooked so we only had to heat it up over the fire or with our little camping grill. S'mores were a must for a nightly snack. Day 1 we had hotdogs over the grill with watermelon (precut) for dessert. Day 2 we had eggs, sausage, and diced potatoes (precooked) for breakfast. All cooked on the travel grill. For lunch we had chicken salad sandwiches and for dinner we had burritos cooked in a grill pie press. Day 3 we ha...
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