I’ve got a chance to share a part of my upcoming book here.

The book is in production, I’m expecting it to come out in February.

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The biggest problem in software development is handling complexity. Software systems tend to grow significantly over time and they quickly outgrow the original designs. When it turns out that the features that need to be implemented collide with the design, we must either re-implement significant portions of the system or introduce horrible quick-and-dirty hacks to make things work.

See the whole excerpt in this PDF