One of my favorite metaphors for setting a cadence for early and often updates comes from the podcast Legacy Code Rocks (https://www.legacycode.rocks/). Launching a new feature is like having a house party. The more house parties you have in your house before you clean things up, the worse condition your house will be in. Although there isn’t a hard-and-fast rule here that will work for everyone, automatically scheduling some time to reevaluate usage changes and technical debt after every n feature launches will normalize the process of updating the system in ways that will ensure its
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