Stories by jeffrey-sherman

Reduce Long Term Customer Churn from Data Growth

Phase 1 is a Millstone, not a Milestone

Two Paths for Paying Down Tech Debt

Tech Debt Is a Big, but Not Expensive, Problem

The Rewrite Release Fear

Separating the Work of Today from the Work of Tomorrow

A Settings Garbage Collector in 2 Shell Scripts

Do the Hard Part First

The Pause – Asking to Stop New Development for a Rewrite

Computerizing India's Railways in the 1980s

Rewrites are Waterfall

When a 33% Success Rate Outperforms 99.999%

Scaffolding, Tests, and Throw Away Work

SmileAndDial CRM – A Fable About Transforming Fundamental Constraints

Transitioning from Microservices to a Monolith

Better in Every Way Is Impossible, Why Legacy Tech Will Not Go Away

What's the opposite of rewriting your software?

Scaling Your SaaS Like a Baker

The C in CRM Grows Unbounded

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