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You are thinking just the running system. The decisions behind why, the quirks of the software, how that all fits together, and the knowledge of why you should
by tehlike 7y ago
You are thinking just the running system.
The decisions behind why, the quirks of the software, how that all fits together, and the knowledge of why you should do certain things (like monitoring, experiments and whatnot) is important.
Good luck documenting all that. Good luck making that document discoverable and readable.
- seren 7y agoOften you can deduce the "why" from the code because it makes some sense, but you can almost never find out is the "why not" . Have they tried something else ? Was it the best solution chosen after a review or something quickly put together ? Likely you'll never know.