It is absolutely not a "perform or else" rule. Why are you reading so far into this? We really do have a rule about tech-debt changes, and it's a useful insight into why you might or might not want to work here, which is why we bring it up, despite the possibility it might alienate people; we'd like to be as honest as we can be. Worrying about people reading hustle-culture bullshit into stuff like this is a reason not to be transparent, which sucks.

If you'd be happier without the companies involved in stories commenting here, then by all means get more people to write comments like this and see if you can chase them away. I think you won't have so much luck with me, but it might work with other companies. Nobody is gaslighting you.

For brevity I chose to put up only the conclusion from a postmortem (of which I've read plenty by now) and another point from their otherwise comparatively shorter careers page, which imo capture the inherent tension between building out fast & building out right. This is not something I've started complaining about today or yesterday. I've used Fly in prod for 4 years and spilled much ink on this topic on their forums already. Even if I critique, I remain optimistic about Fly despite the seemingly endless list of failure modes building such complex systems entail: https://community.fly.io/t/fly-down/10224/15

(personally speaking, I'm humble enough because I can hardly build a toy side-project right!)