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by rockemsockem 555 days ago
Is this what you're talking about?

https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/fast-slow-in-3x-explore-ex...

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Yes exactly, from the experience he had as Facebook massively scaling up, while all good practices were thrown down the window (except for foundation and critical parts) and extreme go horse php being written as fast as possible, until it was too big and a migration was needed

I had the exact same experience at Booking, but with terrible Perl instead of php, still, built massively successful business until one day the movement to better practices becomes inevitable

The opposite of what uncle bob says