Tag: reducing technical debt
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Loose Coupling Is a Survival Strategy
How abstraction, clear ownership, and designing for change help early-stage teams scale without collapsing under their own weight. Very early in my engineering career, I worked on a student information system with a long and complicated lineage. It started in the 1990s, built by a self-taught programmer inside a single school district. Over the years,…
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When to Transition from Generalists to Specialists in Your Engineering Team
Startups are built on the backs of generalists—those versatile team members who can wear multiple hats and tackle diverse challenges. In the early stages of your startup, this flexibility is crucial for navigating uncertainty and moving quickly. However, as your startup grows and transitions from a proof of concept (PoC) to a scalable MVP and…