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🥉 Good, fast, cheap - choose three
A familiar phrase states: “Good, fast, cheap. Choose two.” This is similar to the development triangle. Which states that everything is a tradeoff. However, improving all three becomes possible when doing things differently. That is the …
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✨ The Beauty of Constraints
Constraints are what guide us to good solutions. Software that is simple enough that average developers can actually understand it. A user interface that is intuitive. A system we can deploy without a dedicated SRE team. Hardware created wi…
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😱 The tragedy of no constraints
We never have enough time, resources, funding, CPU, storage, etc. However, think what would happen if we had infinite resources. We would never get started because we have forever to do it. With unlimitted resources, we tend to make a mess …