Engineering
Why your developers say it is hard to change
A year after launch, the smallest change costs three times what it did at the start. That is not reluctance: it is an architecture decision made in month one.
6 min read
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What shipping systems teaches you.
Notes taken during the work: architecture decisions, product trade-offs, search measurements. What worked, what turned out expensive, and why.
2 articles
Product
How a marketing site ships in seven days
Seven days is not a feat of strength: it is what happens when the scope is decided up front and the work does not start over three times.
4 min read