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Simon Eskildsen

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Personal website and blog of Simon Hørup Eskildsen about napkin math, computers, books, ideas, and whatever else interests me.

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Shitlist Driven Development (2016)

Recently the team I work with completed a project to allow Shopify to run in multiple datacenters . This project was a refactoring project in disguise. When you undertake large refactoring of a code-base with 100s of developers and 100,000s of lines of code, you can’t align by sending an email. The merge-conflicts a…