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Build software like you build houses

Interfaces facilitate visibility.

Software is the only engineering practice that doesn't allow runtime visibility to end-user.

If this were true for construction, it would mean your builder would have to live with you for you to even guess what the problem is.

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https://github.com/stripe/veneur

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