Qualities that I believe make the most difference in programmers’ productivity
In this thread: mostly people responding to the headline, not the actual content of the article.<p>There&#x27;s some fantastic stuff in here about how great design is the key to increased productivity. For example:<p>&quot;It is very important for a designer to recognize all the parts of a design that are not easy wins, that is, there is no proportionality between the effort and the advantages. A project that is executed in order to maximize the output, is going to focus exactly on the aspects that matter and that can be implemented in a reasonable amount of time. For example when designing Disque, a message broker, at some point I realized that by providing just best-effort ordering for the messages, all the other aspects of the project could be substantially improved: availability, query language and clients interaction, simplicity and performances.&quot;<p>redis itself is a masterpiece of pragmatic design - the feature set is brilliantly selected to make the most of what you can do with shared data structures exposed over a network. Let&#x27;s talk about that.