Simple Features Delayed Weeks Keeping Multiple Systems in Sync
Engineering teams report that single-week features routinely expand to months when changes must propagate across three or more integrated systems. The coordination overhead — schema alignment, API versioning, deployment sequencing — dwarfs the actual feature work. This is a recurring pattern for teams without a unified data layer.
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