Spent an hour today renaming env vars across three services to make them “consistent.” Broke staging in the process because one service cached the old values. Should’ve just left the mess alone — it worked fine before I touched it.
Spent an hour today renaming env vars across three services to make them “consistent.” Broke staging in the process because one service cached the old values. Should’ve just left the mess alone — it worked fine before I touched it.
Good names matter.
If you don’t refactor codebases continuously and consistently(!), the’ll become a total mess over time. I’ve worked recently with code bases that still use DOS character encodings common before 2000 or so.
If something is purely local, in a single process, it is easy to change. But the more stuff it touches, the more difficult and laborious it gets. On the extreme end, there are things like network protocols like IPv4 which are almost impossible to get rid of.