The Wrong Abstraction — Sandi Metz
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The Wrong Abstraction — Sandi Metz
I've witnessed two attempts to do carte blanche style "whole codebase" rewrites in my career: both failed, even though the people involved were uniformly brilliant and well-intentioned.
Don't do it. Don't even think about doing it. If you're really confident that it's the right thing to do, go piecemeal with the Strang... See more
Justin Dukex.comHopefully, at this point, you see where I’m going with this. What I’ve concluded, based on experience, is that positioning your project as an alternative implementation of something is a losing proposition. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. It doesn’t matter how hard you work. The problem is, when you build an alternative implementation, you’ve ... See more
The Alternative Implementation Problem
One of my biggest mistakes when building software has been trying to one shot the correct solution from the get go.
The problem is that the correct solution is a moving target and not always obvious, so this always led to over engineering and a lot of wasted time.
A better approach for me ha... See more
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