How micro-optimizations in Azure Service Bus SDK paved the way for a smarter redesign
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Daniel Marbach
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Summary
The article discusses how micro-optimizations in the Azure Service Bus SDK led to meaningful design improvements. Rather than advocating for a full rewrite, the author describes how fixing small allocation issues in the Body property exposed deeper structural problems, which then justified and guided a targeted internal redesign. The key insight is that incremental performance fixes can reveal the true shape of a problem and earn the right to redesign, rather than jumping straight into a rewrite.
Key quotes
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"This code is bad. We should rewrite it." Most developers have heard that sentence. Many have said it. I have too.
The problem is not that rewrites are always wrong. The problem is that a rewrite...
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