Tag: code quality
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A Journey of Self Discovery
Sometimes if you stare at a problem too long, it just starts to look normal.
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Like Winning The Lottery
One of the problems with having a really big service is that, after a point, million-to-one odd occurrences start to happen pretty frequently.
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Just Add More Threads
Hence why the real fix for “we’re running out of threads” is not always just “increase the thread pool.”
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Don’t Look Now
There can be a fine line to walk between “really honest” and “don’t scare the new person” when going over how things currently work.
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Stand In For Real
Just imagine how annoyed I am every time there’s an issue in that code.
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Two Kinds of Developers
Feeling a little too seen in that presentation.
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Deployment Velocity
Ah, the classic tale: which came first, the chicken or the egg? Do regressions slow down deployments, or do slow deployments make regressions more likely?