Software Design: Tidy First?

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Mar 27, 2025
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A friend was responsible for the architecture of a large, successful software product. The product needed to handle sensitive information responsibly, so the design called for a single sub-element to have that information written to it but never retrieved from it.

The company bought a complementary product whose team was asked to integrate with the origi…

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