
The Fallacy of 'We'll Refactor It Later': How Technical Debt Compounds
Core: Every engineer knows the promise: “We’ll refactor this later.” Nobody has refactored code written three years ago. …
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Core: Every engineer knows the promise: “We’ll refactor this later.” Nobody has refactored code written three years ago. …
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Core: Your company probably asks engineers to estimate how long tasks will take. Your engineers probably give estimates that are wrong. This …
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Core: Becoming a leader feels like a promotion but is actually a role change. The skills that made you excellent as an engineer often hinder …
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Core: Microservices are deceptively simple in theory but extraordinarily complex in practice. After a decade building distributed systems, …
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Core: The worst code I’ve seen wasn’t messy—it was over-engineered. Teams spent months optimizing readability, modularity, and …
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Core: Most scaling discussions happen at the wrong scale. Teams implement sharding at 100GB when they should be at 10TB. They add caching …
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Core: Docker promised to simplify deployments. We adopted it expecting 2-minute deploys. We got 12-minute deploys instead. The lesson: …
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Core: In 2008, we built a new payment system to replace our “outdated” Java monolith from 2003. It was modern: Rails, …
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Core: Open source looks like a gift economy. People contribute for free. In reality, successful open source is backed by significant …
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