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My name is Adrian

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Software engineer, sometimes speaker, always a learner.

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The High Cost of Fire-and-Forget

Projects all have different requirements and constraints. As engineers, we weigh a lot of pros and cons in our decision-making. Sometimes we deliberately cut scope, and sometimes those decisions come back to haunt us.

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Tradeoffs in Engineering

As we have all come to learn, there is rarely just one solution to an engineering problem. Decisions are almost always driven by current business needs, financial constraints, team capacity, and looming deadlines. There are a lot of dimensions to every architectural choice.

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The Hardest Thing I Have Done

In the recent past, someone asked me “what is the hardest thing you’ve done?” and I really liked that question. There are a lot of directions you can take that question since there are many different interpretations.

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