Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@jyotendra
Created June 15, 2025 08:25
Show Gist options
  • Save jyotendra/ba6ca74a0e0a3860be3eb62d900d3a5d to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Save jyotendra/ba6ca74a0e0a3860be3eb62d900d3a5d to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Aspect Inside-Out Outside-In
Speed Slow, especially for complex systems. Can become overwhelming when dealing with highly coupled architectures. Fast, but requires upfront preparation. Josh's telemetry setup paid dividends. Similar to placing voltage test points in circuit design or implementing comprehensive logging.
Solution Complexity High risk of over-engineering. In tightly coupled systems, changes to one component may unexpectedly affect others, increasing solution complexity. Enables targeted interventions. You can often achieve maximum impact with minimal changes by focusing on what the data reveals as the actual bottleneck.
Team Buy-in Difficult to quantify benefits without concrete metrics. Hard to persuade stakeholders when you can't demonstrate clear ROI. Data-driven proposals are easier to approve. Numbers speak louder than intuition when requesting resources for changes.
System Understanding Provides comprehensive system knowledge, which is valuable for long-term maintenance and architectural decisions. May result in shallow understanding of the overall system, but this is acceptable for fast-changing environments where deep knowledge quickly becomes obsolete.
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment