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Re:Dealing with the perfectionism trap as a developer by mkl95 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @07:48PM (#32669848)
On the other hand most engineers envision "improving things" as refactoring, applying code gymnastics, having more complex architecture etc. despite I/O being the most common culprit (bad/missing indexes, dumb queries, high cardinality...)
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Re:Dealing with the perfectionism trap as a developer by drewcoo on Thursday September 01, 2022 @01:27AM (#32672343)
From what I've seen a lack of testability is the problem with most bad architecture. Testability seems to have a high correlation with being understandable.

If gymnastics make the code easier to understand and prove things about, then we should limber up.

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