Addressing run-time problems

The mantra "if it compiles, it works" helps followers score amazingly well in time-to-market ratings for enterprise software development.

Taking Jet.com as an example of building green field e-commerce platform implementation, it has really condensed the path from zero to minimum viable product (MVP) in less than a year. Release of the platform to the production mode took place in a bit more than a year from the reception.

Does this mean following a functional-first approach is a software development silver bullet? Surely not on an absolute scale, although on a relative scale, the improvements are just great.

Why is the success not exhaustive? The thing is that the practice requires transition from gory ideas to mundane ...

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