software engineering is programming integrated over time This quote, from Titus Winters, expresses an important notion: that software engineering as a discipline must be considered not just with programming at a point in time, but with programming over an extended period. One of the things that tends to happen to a codebase as time is added, is that it tends to scale. We often think of scale in terms of amount of traffic to be served, or volumes of data to be processed.
