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Default cases can be helpful. Unfortunately, with generated serdes (as in Thrift, Avro, or Protobufs), you may not have control over the decoding or ability to customize the defaul…

Our experience with evolving data schemas in distributed systems has led us to realize there's a class of incompatible changes that often aren't mentioned in the documentation for …

One of the signaling effects this may have is that your corporate identity has built up re-usable processes, code libraries, infrastructure, and other IP. This itself can be useful…

Liked this point. The notion of a budget frontier and the boundary it defines is really helpful for design decisions of any sort. There are always limits, whether that's time, mone…