Why does Route 53 give your hosted zone four seemingly random name servers instead of the same ones everyone else gets? There are 2,048 of them, arranged into 730 billion possible combinations. That’s what keeps another customer’s failure domain separate from yours.

So how do we do remote work right? It takes much more than the half-hearted “you’re allowed to work from home” policy you see at companies nowadays. Remote-first means working remote is the default. It means making sure your remote employees are as much a part of the team as those in the office.