All writings tagged with "Best Practices"
Over time, you learn that clean code is an internal concern, but stable interfaces are external. Users do not care how your system is structured. They care that it behaves the same way today as it did yesterday.
I was in a founder's kitchen last month. Whiteboard behind him, coffee going cold, three months of runway left. He walked me through his architecture: Kafka streaming between six microservices, a GraphQL federation layer, a vector database for "future AI features."
Founders are right to move fast. Early on, speed is survival. But some shortcuts do more than save time they quietly borrow against your future ability to build, change, and scale
why are they doing it that way? That seems slower. That seems cautious. That seems a bit boring
I do not think cleverness is inherently bad. Some of it is necessary. Some of it is brilliant. Some of it is the reason a system survives real scale. But none of it is free.
Code explains what the system does. Documentation explains why it does it that way. When the why disappears, velocity disappears with it.