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As a disclaimer, I'm hoping most of you find this to be insulting to your intelligence. I assume this stuff is common sense.

There's a pattern I'm sure we've all observed wherein fixing the real issues falls to the wayside in favor of band-aid solutions in the name of "business decisions" and deadlines. The well-justified band-aid now and then is an annoyance but continuous implementations of band-aids while the real problem persists leads to something I half-jokingly am calling The Cycle of Despair. It looks something like this.

So let me break down the decision process at several places I've worked:

Adventures in Rust

I recently decided to write my next few projects in rust to get a better feel for the language. What better way to show off a compiled, strongly-typed language that offers safety and speed? That's right, implement something that has to interact with an Atlassian API. /s

My current job has me dealing with tons of interrupts, and we've realized that we need to track these in such a way that we can factor number of interrupts and time spent on those interrupts into our bi-weekly sprint reviews. Now if that sentence didn't elicit some visceral urge to roll your eyes, you probably aren't Agile enough. Anyway, it is what it is.