[TomMasz]

There aren't many things you can't open with a Halligan bar as long as you don't care how much damage you do.

[dreamcompiler]

But as my chief taught us back in our newbie days, "Before you swing the Halligan, try the doorknob."

This has turned out to be excellent advice.

[systemvoltage]

I still can't stop laughing. What would be the software engineering equivalent of this? Something to do with Kubernetes I suppose.

[zasdffaa]

'before using Apache Spark on a cluster, try using a single decent server and programming it properly'

bit nerdy but from experience

[BizarroLand]

Before buying a server, prove the concept in VirtualBox.

[sph]

Before designing a distributed serverless architecture on EKS, try a LAMP server.