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The rewrite we did not do
We spent a fortnight planning a full rewrite, wrote down what the new system would have to do, and discovered that nearly all the pain came from two modules and a deployment…
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Ines Kovač
Fifteen years building products, most of them too quickly. This is where I write down what I would do differently.
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