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This technique works: you can write all the set_property methods you need, and the instance variable–based retrieval methods to go with them. But there’s a nicer way.

I generally think matrixed is death, so I’m always pushing companies to go to a flat structure of independent teams. I’m really on the Jeff Bezos program on that, the two-pizza team thing.2 I think hierarchies kill innovation for the most part. And I think that matrixes are just lethal in most cases. There are exceptions, but in most cases, you nee

• Self-contained
  
  We ship a single dependency-free binary that runs on all Linux distributions


• Fast to deploy, safe to operate
  
  We are sysadmins, we know the value of operator-friendly software


• Deploy everywhere on every machine
  
  We do not have a dedicated backbone, and neither do you,
  
  so

We value code that is easy to maintain over code that is easy to write.1 Implementing a feature in the most direct way can damage the maintainability of the system, for example by making the code difficult to understand or by introducing hidden dependencies between components.