9 Love deleting code
This chapter covers
- Understanding how code slows development
- Setting limits to prevent accidental waste
- Handling transitions with the strangler fig pattern
- Minimizing waste with the spike and stabilize pattern
- Deleting anything that does not pull its weight
Our systems are useful because of the functionality they provide. The functionality comes from code, so it is easy to think that code is implicitly valuable—but this is not the case. Code is a liability. It is a necessary evil that we have to live with to get the functionality we need.
Another reason we tend to feel that code is valuable is that it is expensive to produce. Writing code requires skilled workers to spend lots of time (and consume lots of caffeine). Attributing ...
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