REBASE'20 Talk: Miniaturize All States

Fleets of servers suffer from constant “configuration drift”, making any incremental change to their state hazardous. Will an upgrade that worked yesterday work today? Will it work for you if it worked for me? We’re never quite sure…

The solution: miniaturizing the inputs to your lab experiment and to your build bots, the state of your laptop and of your resources in the cloud, using precise, shareable, composable declarative specifications.