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Ten years on one codebase, and what I would build differently

Expert Opinion Aug 04, 2026

Ten years on one codebase, and what I would build differently

I ran one product's codebase for ten years and decided not to migrate it to a framework. That call saved roughly a year of frozen feature work and cost me things I did not see at the time. Here is the architecture I built instead, the score I invented to track it, and the three decisions I would make differently.

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