The Slow Build

Essays on making software carefully, published most Fridays.


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  • The rewrite we did not do

    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, author of The Slow Build, relaxed in soft afternoon window light at home

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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.