Software Design: Tidy First?

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Pattern: someone says, “We need to go faster!!!” (yes, 3 exclamation points!)

Transformation: ask “latency or throughput”. They’ll say “both”. Keep asking until you get an answer or you learn that the organization refuses to distinguish.

Latency is the distribution of times from when work enters the system until work leaves the system. “For the features t…

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