<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><br></div><div>If the projects can be made to work 100% independently and yet still complement each other, then we are good.</div>
</blockquote><div><br>That was the idea of my suggestion. 20% redundancy, 80% separate; with a step of "choose whichever version of the redundant stuff is better" on day X. If one side flakes out, the other side is not hurt; the only thing that can happen is you can have to switch to presumably a better version of what you already have after 2 weeks.<br>
<br>For this to work, you would not want the redundancy to be more than 10-20% at the start; but I think it is consistent with Google's mandate.<br></div></div><br>