Thursday 8 June 2017
The cardinal rule in programming is “Don’t repeat yourself,” or DRY. It says that developers should only implement a particular functionality within a project once. Doing otherwise is bad, because it introduces technical debt and potential inconsistencies. But it only really applies within the scope of a project. If you move on to something else, it’s inevitable that you’ll write something you’d previously used in different projects, which obviously is hugely inefficient. This is something Ran Mizrahi, co-founder of Bit, is intimately familiar with. When working on Wix’s development team, he scanned the entirety of its myriad of software systems…
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