What Experience Teaches Engineers to Optimize
why are they doing it that way? That seems slower. That seems cautious. That seems a bit boring
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why are they doing it that way? That seems slower. That seems cautious. That seems a bit boring
"Code is for the machine, not your ego” might as well be the unofficial Go motto right next to: "We removed that feature because you might misuse it."
The shorter the distance between writing code and seeing its effects in production, the faster teams learn. DevOps optimizes for learning speed.
Tests are often justified using coverage metrics. Coverage is a weak proxy for what tests actually provide: confidence.
Security failures are inevitable. Credentials leak. Dependencies are compromised. Humans make mistakes.
Caching appears simple: store something once, reuse it later. In reality, caching introduces *time* as a dependency and time is one of the hardest things to reason about in systems.