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May 27, 2025

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Career Growth and Technical Leadership

Choosing Between Duplication and a Shared Abstraction

A solution can look better in isolation and still be harder for the team to maintain. The people who will change and support it are part of the decision too.

Technical LeadershipMaintainabilityTeam PracticesArchitectureTechnology Decisions

Jun 20, 2023

3 min read

Backend Engineering and Architecture

Using a Familiar Stack for a Critical Backend Workflow

A familiar stack may not make an architecture diagram more interesting, but it can make incidents, onboarding and future changes easier for the team.

Software ArchitectureTechnology DecisionsPostgreSQLJavaMaintainability

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Choosing Between Duplication and a Shared Abstraction

Using a Familiar Stack for a Critical Backend Workflow

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