[dvanduzer]

Sysadmin here.

Authors of well packaged software know when they need fine grained library features, and include static versions of that library. Authors of well packaged software also pay attention to the distribution of commonly used libraries, and make careful decisions when using system-provided shared versions of those libraries.

The author of the article is complaining when someone downstream overrides those decisions. If you're asking how many clusters one of the primary developers of Riak has run, you may not be reading closely enough.