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Mature engineers should make their trade-offs explicit at the beginning of a project.
Drawn from what John Allspaw said
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- John Allspaw Engineering leader and writer on web operations and resilience engineering
Immature engineers discover them in hindsight, disgusted. Mature engineers spell them out at the onset of a project, accept them and recognize them as part of good engineering.
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