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The article does not point out how the system can go astray. Design docs are great when they can in 1-2 pages describe a how an important/large/complex system
by wsetchell 6y ago
The article does not point out how the system can go astray.
Design docs are great when they can in 1-2 pages describe a how an important/large/complex system will work and the tradeoffs made when designing it.
Some groups in Google confuse design docs conflated with the promotion process, and thus engineers start create long/time consuming docs for every little thing as part of building a case for promotion.