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one-weird-trick-to-speed-up-feature-teams/ #132

Open utterances-bot opened 1 month ago

utterances-bot commented 1 month ago

One weird trick to speed up feature teams!

Staff engineers hate this!

https://danlevy.net/one-weird-trick-to-speed-up-feature-teams/

chhatch commented 1 month ago

Try the simplest possible data persistence when designing a new system or feature.

Starting with the simplest design that meets your needs for the foreseeable future shouldn't be radical advice, but it is. We devs have a tendency to reach for the biggest hammer in the toolbox first.