Fast Food vs. Home-Cooked Software: A Developer's Dilemma
2025-01-17
This article explores two contrasting approaches to software development: fast food and home-cooked. Fast food software uses agile sprints, prioritizing rapid iteration over long-term maintainability. Home-cooked software emphasizes upfront design, resulting in lean, stable code, but with longer development cycles. The author criticizes the prevalent fast food approach, highlighting its creation of massive technical debt and poor user experiences. A call for a return to a more quality-focused, maintainable approach is made.
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