Refactoring: Making sense of the invisible
Refactoring is so underrated and misunderstood. There will never be enough books or enough blog posts about it. It's something that we need to keep revisiting from time to time. Very few people deeply understand it, but one thing is for sure: genuine and spread across the whole industry like wildfire: fear of refactoring. Fear can be a powerful feeling and an excellent way to keep you in check with reality, especially in difficult economic times. Still, fear can also be a significant source of blindness, inertia, and illusion, leading to bad economic decisions. Refactoring is not a binary decision; you either do it all and re-write the system or do zero-to-nothing. Companies and engineers need to apply more refactoring daily , and this matter is definitely unbalanced. Software at scale makes complete rewrites almost impossible. No company can stop the business for years and still succeed; many companies have tried and failed financially and in rewriting. So don't do more refact