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I assume their code base has been working for 10 years? Not every owner cares about scaling or quality, sometimes speed is their selling factor. That's why we
by Nadya 11y ago
I assume their code base has been working for 10 years? Not every owner cares about scaling or quality, sometimes speed is their selling factor.
That's why we have McDonalds and 5-star restaurants instead of only 5-star restaurants.
You can try to educate him on why documentation would help speed up development, would make on-boarding new devs easier/faster (increasing product quality/stability and possibly decreasing churn for when your critical API fails on a customer...)
But his business is clearly working for him. So why change things? Why spend a lot of time (and time=money) on fixing problems that haven't ailed his successful business for 10 years?
- Einstalbert 11y agoSometimes these businesses work because of people like the OP, who shoulders the burden of a bad decision maker for years. We're celebrating one of our big company milestones and we're no different. The decision makers think we're here but by the grace of God sometimes. I say we're here but by the grace of Todd and his addiction to energy drinks.
- remyp 11y agoThis is definitely the case currently. There is one developer that has been around for several years and he has clearly been bearing the brunt of the work. This firm's bus factor is equal to 1.