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Dave Anderson

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If you're a software engineer, your main job is maintaining legacy code. Why? Because building a system doesn't take long, in comparison to how long code will last, assuming the code/business are successful. Here are the 10 commandments of maintaining legacy code. 🧵


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I wrote part of one of the #Amazon Leadership Principles (LPs). @scarletinked wrote one of the most popular posts on the web about the whole list. You can learn from the Amazon LPs no matter where you work. Here are some examples.


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“When you take action, you either save time, or you learn something” - @scarletinked Reckless Bias for Action — A Tale of Immaturity and Impatience buff.ly/3QKGVC3


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🎯 That's the key issue. It's got to change. Related articles by @scarletinked (paid, worth it): scarletink.com/p/how-companie… scarletink.com/p/how-to-win-a…

This was a result of the incentive structure. People got promoted for building big systems where small would have worked, and big teams when small would have worked.



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