There is a new kind of content pollution on the internet. It is clean looking. It is fast. It is confident. It is usually correct in the same way instant noodles are usually a meal. You have seen it. Twenty posts explaining distributed systems with suspiciously identical examples. Thirty threads about performance that all end with the same advice about caching. A flood of technical content that sounds useful until you try to build anything from it and realize you were given a polis...