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3 articles tagged Deprecation
Software Architecture10 min read
A schema change is easy. A schema change deployed across a fleet where old and new code run simultaneously, without a maintenance window, is a different problem with a known shape.
Software Architecture9 min read
Flags are cheap to add and nobody owns removing them. A codebase with three hundred of them has 2^300 configurations, none of which is tested, and one of which is production.
Software Engineering8 min read
A test that has never failed is either protecting something or costing something. We spent three weeks finding out which, and deleted 2,140 of them.