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What 10k Hours of Coding Taught Me: Don't Ship Fast

I’ve been an engineer for over 7 years now. I have worked on countless projects in backend, frontend, and DevOps. I don’t consider myself a great engineer; there are people out there who are not only smarter but also more experienced. Over the years,...

Over the years, I have learned some tricks to help me climb the programming ladder, allowing me to build software that is reliable and easy to work with. They end-up making there managers happy, yet in the long-run everybody is panicking and they are considering refactoring or even building the application from scratch after 4-5 years. Refactoring a relatively big software, for example, with over 70,000 lines of code, can take 30-40 hours and also create a lot of errors and bugs in the process.

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