An amazing article about how software development doesn’t follow economies of scale. If you go from 3 engineers to 4, the communication paths increase from 3 to 6.
When you release one feature, you test exactly one thing. Now you add another feature to release, you don’t just have to test 2 things, you need to test 3 things: the two features plus, their interaction among each other.
I think this article puts in words, what I’ve been preaching and practicing without being able to express. Super glad that we’re aiming for a small team at Dgraph. It just gives me more evidence that what I’ve been seeing with small teams achieving great things is not just a fluke; it makes logical sense.
The one thing that we should be changing is our release cycle. I think we should be releasing more frequently than we do right now. Smaller features more often, with micro-minor releases. So, if it breaks backward compatibility then v0.N where N = 1 + M (previous release). Otherwise, 0.N.X.
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