A number of years ago, at my first job out of college, I was working for a company that found itself in the swell of the then-nascent cloud computing wave. The work that my team did was mainly write proofs-of-concept for new products that would then be scaled in collaboration with a broader, global engineering team. There was one “concept” that I had in mind, though, that, due to various competing team priorities, I never got to work on and “prove.” It was in relation to applying Reed...
