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Systems Ideas That Sound Good but Almost Never Work – "Let's Just "

Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended

First, being an API provider is itself a whole mindset and skill where you constantly trade compatibility and interoperability for features, where you are constrained in how things change because of legacy behavior or performance characteristics, and you can basically never move the cheese around. Today’s world is vastly more complex than the days of theoretical debates about access control because systems are under constant attack. @ROzzie(Ray Ozzie) who got his start on the Plato product, invented Lotus Notes, as well as Groove and Talko, and led the formation of Microsoft Azure was a pioneer in client/server and data sync.

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