Bare metal, no exceptions
Every production instance runs directly on raw hardware. Zero hypervisors, zero abstraction overhead between your code and the CPU.
One binary per host
Statically linked, scp to target, run. No dependency trees to resolve, no version conflicts — a single file is the deploy artifact.
Pipes over message queues
Data flows through Unix pipes, not message brokers with nine-nines SLA theater. Your grep skills are the observability platform.
stdout is the log
Every service writes to standard output. No structured logging frameworks, no log aggregator overhead — just streams you can pipe and replay.