Something reminded me recently of project that I worked on around 10 years ago. I was a simple, clean solution to a problem that had remained unsolved for over a year. It was also one of the most horrible hacks that I’ve ever put into production. At the time, I was working for a startup that was suffering from explosive growth. We’d began rolling out new sales and engineering offices all over the US faster than we could build the infrastructure that we needed to manage the offices. We bui...
