Re:“It’s Easier To Ask Forgiveness Than To Get Permission”
by darkarmani on Thursday June 21, 2018 @12:29PM
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> I quite strongly disagree. Just like picture is worth a thousand words, working code (prototype) is worth a thousand words too.
Working code is the easiest part. No one every throws it out and we are doomed to maintain the shitty prototype code for years. I find for internal software / consulting: "working code, ends arguments" but for enterprise software it is exactly the opposite.
It's idiosyncratic code that doesn't scale to a team developing it. It's has no tests and no thought to broader usage. There is no documentation. It fails apart after you put load on it, want HA, load-balancing, disaster recovery. Almost all code works at the small scale. It's so hard to prove to even mid-range developers why an architecture that "works" doesn't really work.
When you mix developers coming from the opposite spectrum it is disastrous.
Working code is the easiest part. No one every throws it out and we are doomed to maintain the shitty prototype code for years. I find for internal software / consulting: "working code, ends arguments" but for enterprise software it is exactly the opposite.
It's idiosyncratic code that doesn't scale to a team developing it. It's has no tests and no thought to broader usage. There is no documentation. It fails apart after you put load on it, want HA, load-balancing, disaster recovery. Almost all code works at the small scale. It's so hard to prove to even mid-range developers why an architecture that "works" doesn't really work.
When you mix developers coming from the opposite spectrum it is disastrous.