Deprecating Despair - Improving Your Application and Staying Positive

One of the biggest unaddressed problems we’ve encountered as an engineering team is: despair.

Despair is when you are fixing a bug and you happen upon the ghetto of your code base. Ill maintained, written a long time ago, duct taped together to just barely work. You go in and are immediately crippled by the state of affairs. The poor code causes you to seize up, incapacitated. How do you go... [read more]

One of the biggest unaddressed problems we’ve encountered as an engineering team is: despair.

Despair is when you are fixing a bug and you happen upon the ghetto of your code base. Ill maintained, written a long time ago, duct taped together to just barely work. You go in and are immediately crippled by the state of affairs. The poor code causes you to seize up, incapacitated. How do you go forward? The business still needs the bug fixed. So you carefully tiptoe in, make your fix, and try to leave without touching anything else, fearing any reason to return.

How can you avoid this? How can your code base instill hope? A hope that is the premise of responsible activity, not an empty optimism that the future will necessarily be better than the past.

Trada is a mid sized shop, working in our 3 year old application filled with one-offs and best guesses. This is how we are turning this around. This is how we’re Deprecating Despair.

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