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by WJW
1778 days ago
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Can't disagree. Spreadsheets are incredibly powerful tools and the barrier to entry is very low. The only situation I can think of where you should discourage their use is in those situations where you know for sure in advance that the application is going to outgrow the spreadsheet very soon and/or immediately. If you are building a new microservice that will serve a million customers per day, don't make the mockup in a spreadsheet. |
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Agree!
> know for sure in advance that the application is going to outgrow the spreadsheet very soon and/or immediately
Hard to agree, what does "outgrow" mean here? Spreadsheets can handle very big use cases, with lots of data and still be useful, if you take care when building it (similarly to programming)
> If you are building a new microservice that will serve a million customers per day, don't make the mockup in a spreadsheet.
Hard disagree. Mockups are for prototyping/experimentation, so it hardly matters how you do them, as long as you throw them away before starting the main implementation (this throwing away tends to be the hardest part).
Spreadsheets are amazing prototyping tools!