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I’m a veteran software engineer with more than 25 years of experience, ranging from coding Unix applications in C to crafting sleek .NET solutions and even blockchain and cryptographic solutions. Along the way, I’ve dabbled in everything from writing Windows drivers to streaming desktops as video feeds, game development, and now I’m exploring gRPC and Google Cloud hosting. When I’m not banging out code, I’m probably wrangling tech quirks or pondering the mysteries of management decisions and direction of technology in general.

 

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Defining Quality

By Matt Raffel on December 24, 2025

Since I've been writing a bit about what it truly means to go fast—and emphasizing that speed without quality is failure, not success—I thought I'd share some thoughts on what quality actually is.

The temptation is often to defi...

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