Wisdom Glossary

Browse 2 wisdom terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Wisdom Terms

Friday Deploy: Deploying code changes to production on a Friday — universally regarded as reckless because if something breaks, you either ruin your weekend fixing it or...
Premature Optimization: The act of optimizing code for performance before you know where the actual bottleneck is. Knuth called it 'the root of all evil,' and he wasn't wrong —...