refactoring - No Kill Switch

10 months agoin Software Architecture, Software Architect, refactoring

The naive myth of architecture as "free goodies"

There are so many myths about software architecture ... that it's done once and there's no further cost associatedthat if you do it properly, it will serve foreverthat there's "the correct way to do it" & you measure correctness with "software…

3 years agoin engineering culture, refactoring

True refactoring VS erhm ... making love to the code?

TL;DR These days everyone knows that servers are supposed to be more like cattle than pets. But the same principle applies to the code - caressing it & endlessly tuning it according to completely subjective, quasi-aesthetic criteria is one…