the.com/configuration
The 10% of setup that causes 90% of the support tickets.
means The specific way a system's settings, components, and options are arranged to make it actually work (or not).
from From Latin configurare — 'com-' (together) plus 'figurare' (to shape, from figura, 'form' or 'figure'). So literally 'to shape together.' It entered English in the 1600s mostly for describing the arrangement of stars, limbs, or landscapes, before technology adopted it to describe the arrangement of settings, wires, and options — the ancient art of shaping-together, now applied to why your printer won't print.
- default blame
- nobody reads defaults until they break
- yaml tax
- indentation errors cost more than bugs
- drift risk
- works on my machine means configs diverged
- env variables
- the silent switches nobody documents