The Software Engineer’s Dilemma: You Can Either Have It Fast or Right

When working with software, you often hear “Faster, faster, faster!” But faster tends to lead to poor quality. What can you do?

Allen Helton
Better Programming
Published in
6 min readMar 10, 2021

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Two roads. One reads “Quality” and the other “Speed.”
Photo by Justin Luebke on Unsplash (altered by the author).

I was sitting on a call the other day.

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I am an AWS serverless hero with a strong focus on API design and standardization, event-driven architectures, and software automation.