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Episode Four - Nozomi

In this episode Isaac and Jeffrey invite Colleen Grafton and Nathan Keyes to talk about a shared experience of a rewrite gone wrong - how it failed, who approved it, and how it impacted their careers.

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Episode Three - Why You Hate Testing

The episode centers around the hate that testing gets from developers, particular junior developers and particularly those that work at startups where the culture around testing is that it is not as important as delivering features for customers.

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Episode Two - Iteratively Replace

In this episode we provide an alternative to rewriting a codebase from scratch: iteratively replacing bits of functionality over time. We share four reasons why iterative replacement is better.

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Episode One

In this episode we describe why a complete rewrite of a product or feature rarely works.

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