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Many experienced devs have ptsd from working themselves into a corner on unscalable stack which required death marches to resolve. Not surprisingly they often d
by dilyevsky 4y ago
Many experienced devs have ptsd from working themselves into a corner on unscalable stack which required death marches to resolve. Not surprisingly they often do a complete 180 after that. A strong cto / senior eng core would prevent the company from going to either extremes but unfortunately not many of them have that.
- fsociety 4y agoI am sure there is truth to this, but from my personal experience the death marches I have seen have come from overly complex designs which try to handle all future problems but then fail miserably. Whereas evolving a simple design to be more scalable often works out well. I am sure there are many situations this isn't true, but I have not seen them in my experience.