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by Twirrim 3397 days ago
While it's an interesting look at a change you introduced, that blog title might not come across quite as intended.

If you're having to "secretly introduce" tech, and "get away with it", that suggests there are unnecessary and unproductive constraints on your work; maybe even suggesting that you'd get in trouble for actually daring to make things better.
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arianvanp 3397 days ago
The "secretly" part refers to part of the story where we had 1 hour to build up quick prototype to pitch to our boss. The title is a bit tongue-in-cheek. It's not that we built this thing in secret for months and then just deployed it. That's also not what the article says :)

We had been planning on replacing Scheduler for a while now, and had already written down some mumblings about what the new design should look like. We were also already discussing whether we would switch away from python back then.

I think the exact opposite of what you are saying is true. We got the freedom to experiment with something new, and to actually make things better along the way.

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Twirrim 3397 days ago
>I think the exact opposite of what you are saying is true. We got the freedom to experiment with something new, and to actually make things better along the way.

Sure, and from what I read I mostly took it that way. My original point was just that maybe a bit of caution would be good in the choice of title. If I was just skimming through the titles on HN, or skimming the article, it could be easy to get the wrong impression of channable.

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_jal 3397 days ago
Not the author, but I think that is exactly what they wanted to convey in the title. The implication is that they're fighting the man and won.

There's a tradition of programmers laying claim to subversively Making Things Better in spite of the bean counters. Sometimes, it is even true, as far as it goes.

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