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Do Best Practices Matter?
- Published on Do best practices really matter? - Authors - Name - Trevor Elkins - @rovert_snikle Lately I've been re-examining a lot of what I once thought to be best practices. Here's a common software engineer origin story.
It encapsulates the business logic developers actually want to run in a single place, you don't have to figure out how to wire together a bunch of objects on your own. You write O(N^2) algorithms and push them to production because "N will be small in practice", until in rare cases it isn't, but somehow this thinking often gets lost in system design. For example, one of my favorite practical techniques is to include a misc JSON column on my tables to stuff random data in that doesn't fit the rest of my schema.
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