The work of everyone involved in delivering software is full of tradeoffs. We tend to operate with limited time, limited budgets, and limited knowledge. Therefore, today’s decisions about the software we are creating will have consequences in the future, such as maintenance cost, inflexibility of our software when it needs to change, limited performance when we need to scale, and many others. It is important to note that every decision is made in a specific context. It’s easy to judge past decisions without complete knowledge about the context in which they were made. However, the more knowledge and the more deep analysis we do at decision time, the more aware we can be about the tradeoffs our decisions carry.