How Eventjoy develops new features fast

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by tgoldberg • 12 years ago

25 2 12 years ago

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I'll add: make sure to keep your technical debt low as you go, otherwise at some point features will become harder to ship, if not impossible.

karlhwhite• 12 years ago

Agreed. Eventjoy Developer/Co-founder here. During early stage development, you can't afford to optimize too heavily for technical debt, especially since some features may be thrown out or re-written entirely, but a lot of technical debt is avoidable, and can be mitigated with a few simple practices. My personal top two being:

1. Despite being the only developer, I comment. A lot. We have a large codebase, and I need to be able to understand code I have not touched in months at a moments notice.

2. Modularize. Even if something is being thrown together quickly, I make future-me happy by keeping things as modular as possible from the outset. This allows problems to be isolated a lot faster, and for individual pockets of code to be replaced more easily.

I'd love to hear others' thoughts on managing tech-debt!

How Eventjoy develops new features fast

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