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That might be true, but you might not have those engineers or they might be busy with higher-priority tasks:

> It’s also ill-advised to try to solve data sync while also working on a product. These problems require patience, thoroughness, and extensive testing. They can’t be rushed. And you already have a problem on your hands you don’t know how to solve: your product. Try solving both, fail at both.

Also, you might not have that "large scale" yet.

(I get that you could also make the opposite case, that the individual requirements for your product are so special that you cannot factor out any common behavior. I'd see that as a hypothesis to be tested.)




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