There's a few things that stood out to me that seem like "bad practices":<p>> we don’t use DNS internally — just configuration-managed /etc/hosts files<p>This seems very odd and redundant. Does someone manually edit all servers when a new server comes online?<p>> Make RANDOM() deterministic<p>Why would you use random if you want determinism? That sounds like the opposite of random to me.<p>> David Barrett, Founder of Expensify<p>Was this blog post really written by the founder!?!<p>The perftest[0] code is in a branch named "dbarrett_perftest" but that still surprises me.<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/Expensify/Bedrock/tree/dbarrett_perftest/perftest" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Expensify/Bedrock/tree/dbarrett_perftest/...</a>