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by surajrmal 3 days ago
Considering the large increases in revenues bug tech extracts year over year, the maintenance and small improvements are not necessarily completely disregarding the business side of things. You cannot keep sustained performance without proper practices. Too much short term thinking like you see in startups leads to loss of confidence that new changes won't break existing customers, or hellish on call that no one wants to be part of. There is a lifecycle to product development and different phases require different tradeoffs. You sound like you align with the builder phase and that's great.

I will also note that most civil engineering is about maintaining existing structures and roadways, not building new ones.

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> Considering the large increases in revenues bug tech extracts year over year

I don't know if bug tech was a typo or intentional but from now on I'm using it in place of big tech.