Graham Christensen personal blog
Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems
Over time, a system collects state on its root partition. This state lives in assorted directories like /etc and /var , and represents every under-documented or out-of-order step in bringing up the services.
- Points
- 365
- HN comments
- 147
- Submissions
- 2
- Cited by
- 25 commenters
Infrastructure & DevOpsSoftware Engineering2020
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2020 | Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems by grhmc | 365 | 115 |
| Sep 14, 2021 | Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems by ducktective | 77 | 32 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 32 Hacker News comments by 25 different people, from Apr 2020 to Jan 2026.
Most recent:
- __MatrixMan__ · Jan 12, 2026
- undeveloper · Jan 2, 2026
- bigyabai · Jan 2, 2026
- burkaman · Apr 29, 2025
- t0astbread · Mar 11, 2025
- yjftsjthsd-h · May 3, 2024
