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James Socol

Jan 6, 2007

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Debt, Depreciation, and Sustaining Engineering Work

Calling rearchitecture "tech debt" is a dangerous lie: it misrepresents the level of effort and retroactively makes our decisions into mistakes.

Nov 14, 2023 4 min read

Starring our Monolith in the Role of...

Stop me if you've heard this one before. As a small, early stage start-up, we built an application in [Rails / Django / Express / Gin] because we were able to lean on the framework and ecosystem for a lot of the boring stuff, and focus on our unique value. Now, as our

Nov 4, 2023 8 min read

Introducing API Boundaries to Prepare for Bigger Changes

Alternatively: API Boundaries for Fun and Profit I routinely misquote Kent Beck, who said "for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change." He said this on Twitter (RIP) so I won't be linking to it, but at least for now

Oct 23, 2023 13 min read

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