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Regarding small incremental changes, one of my favorite quotes is from Michael Lopp (aka Rands): “Don’t underestimate the compounding awesomeness of fixing small broken things.”

If you’re working in sprints or iterations, try to include one thing like this in every sprint. Fix the logging that generates too many log entries. Improve the error handling in a problem area of the code. Add some retry logic to something that fails occasionally. I always try to keep a backlog of small things like this, and work them in wherever I can. Over time it makes a huge difference.




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