I write about Software + Tech. Uber Engineer.
Often times, software engineers are faced with the prospect of adding new functionalities or checking in new code that seems to be beneficial. The common reasoning goes like this: why not? What do we have to lose? We already wrote it. It will provide the customers with more options.
In 2012, I read Marc Anderseen’s “Software is eating the world” New York Times editorial. Today, it’s happening at an even faster pace. Software is not only disrupting enterprise productivity or communication systems, where software was traditionally applied and sold, but…
You start a project, it gets traction, people start using it, some of these people start complaining that it is too damn slow. You realize that they are right. This blog post is about what you do next.