{"id":715,"date":"2016-01-27T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/diseconomies-of-scale\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:40:00","slug":"diseconomies-of-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/diseconomies-of-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Diseconomies of Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The trouble is, software has diseconomies of scale. The more we build, the more expensive it becomes to build and maintain. As software grows, we\u2019ll spend more time and money on:<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>Operational support \u2013 keeping it running<\/li>\n<li>User support \u2013 helping people use the features<\/li>\n<li>Developer support \u2013 training new people to understand our software<\/li>\n<li>Developing new features \u2013 As the system grows so will the complexity and the time to build new features on top of it (Even with well-factored code)<\/li>\n<li>Understanding dependencies \u2013 The complex software and systems upon which we build<\/li>\n<li>Building Tools \u2013 to scale testing\/deployment\/software changes<\/li>\n<li>Communication \u2013 as we try to enable more people to work on it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/benjiweber.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/why-i-strive-to-be-a-0-1x-engineer\/\">Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer | Benji&rsquo;s Blog &#8211;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trouble is, software has diseconomies of scale. The more we build, the more expensive it becomes to build and maintain. As software grows, we\u2019ll spend more time and money on: Operational support \u2013 keeping it running User support \u2013 helping people use the features Developer support \u2013 training new people to understand our software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}