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Ad Hoc Infrastructure – By Kent Beck

First published in 2017.

It carefully balances the risks inherent in creating infrastructure, stages investment, and realizes economies of scale. A small improvement to the cache’s behavior results in a large return on investment because of scale. “I wish we had built this a different way...” leads to building a small part of the application in a better way, a way that just so happens to be useful for other apps after a bit of tweaking.

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