“I need access to the system to get access to all data.” No. What you need is an endpoint you can call whenever you want to get only the data you need. Customers come to us with needs, in the middle there are always wants and stretching towards what they want (ask for the ocean and get the lake you need). The goal is to separate what they want from what they need but also…
When someone asks “How do we solve this?” And the solution is a vintage, time-tested, battle-hardened approach that works. You know it’s going to be a good day. I haven’t written multi-threaded code in a long time, but man when the opportunity popped up I jumped to it. I never met a thread I didn’t like.
Every now and again, we get overwhelmed with all we are doing and we need to find our reminder for why we are doing something. Is it our love for the work? Is it a particular aspect? What is it that makes you want to do this “thing” that right now is stressing you out? You might not be able to avoid everything, but sometimes we need a reminder as to why we’re there.
Sure, Don’t Stop Believing, but in general, don’t stop. If it were easy, everyone would be doing it, but they aren’t, they stopped. They stopped when it became tough, complicated, and frustrating. You didn’t. You didn’t stop. Don’t start now. BTW – my favourite cover.
The Quick change takes days, weeks, months, maybe even years. But is seen only once.