Dragan Stepanović

I often ask myself if a technology, beside lowering the costs for which lowering the costs is beneficial, is also lowering the costs for which lowering the costs is detrimental.

In short, the system compensates for the increase in transaction cost per batch size by increasing the batch size.

The idea of managing (inherent) interdependence in systems is at least as important as the idea of decoupling (independence) that the software development industry is so predominantly obsessed with since the field’s inception.

in a way that it amplifies the pain that every single individual felt when working in isolation, but because everyone was suffering alone, the pain was perceived not as high to address it.

contains more action items related to adding more gates before a change reaches customers, rather than reducing the size of the change, you’ll likely end up with having to create even more incidents reports.

to what it wants to be, instead of you trying to force it into your idea of what it should be.

is that once they persist long enough and are more adopted in the industry, they become familiar solutions.

is not Balanced or Safe or Conservative Programming.

with each deployment (smaller changes), not more delayed feedback (more gates, more branches, etc.).

(same as with async code reviews) is that the author knows when and what kind of feedback they need.