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> A nice simple how-many-in-stock web service would be a lot easier to maintain. ... yes, _after_ you are doing millions of transactions per month. But until y
by andraz 14y ago
> A nice simple how-many-in-stock web service would be a lot easier to maintain.
... yes, _after_ you are doing millions of transactions per month. But until you've actually built a business, there's no point in setting up a web service.
If there's a web service, there has to be a team to maintain it. This means you need to be big enough to have one team per web service.
- michaelt 14y agoAbsolutely - I'm sure you've heard of the idea of technical debt [1,2] and sometimes it makes sense to build up technical debt to get a system off the ground, then worry about maintainability, documentation and whatnot in your copious free time later on. [1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/paying-down-your-technical-debt.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/02/paying-down-your-te... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt