Tag: code quality
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One Hundred Lines
Sure, you could write a simple 100-line program to do a lot of things where everything is acting the way you expect it to act. And then someone will breathe near it and suddenly nothing is working anymore and you… have to add some more lines of code.
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Feel Good Code
I used to collect quotes at the office and display them on post-it notes. Thanks to a co-worker for saying this one (nearly verbatim).
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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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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?