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Background

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Background

The "why" behind some of the codebase's bigger decisions. The architecture and how-to-contribute pages cover what and how; this section captures why.

  • Design decisions — choices that shape day-to-day code and have stuck for years.
  • Migration context — in-flight migrations: AppenderV2, Mantine UI, AWS SDK v2, RW2, native histograms.

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