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| | At one point in 2019, several parts of Stripe's engineering organization were going through a polite civil war. The conflict was driven by one group's belief that Java should replace Ruby. Java would, they posited, address the ongoing challenge of delivering a quality platform in the face of both a rapidly growing business and a rapidly growing engineering organization. The other group believed Stripe's problems were driven by a product domain with high essential complexity and numerous, demanding external partners ranging from users to financial institutions to governments; switching programming languages wouldn't address any of those issues. I co-wrote the internal version of Magnitudes of exploration in an attempt to find a useful framework for navigating that debate, but nonetheless the two groups struggled to make much progress in understanding one another.
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| | In this blog I write about technology, programming, open source and Linux, both technically and in general. May contain traces of rant.
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| Programming history is filled with bugs that turned out to be features and limitations that pushed developers to make even more interesting products. We'll journey through code that was so 'bad' it was actually good. Along the way we'll look at the important role failure plays in learning. Then we'll tame our inner perfectionists and