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Designing for long-term maintenance

You've been asked "how would you design this feature so it's still maintainable years from now?" Using a feature you built recently as the example, explain what criteria drove your decisions to make a structure that stays easy to change over time.

How would an interviewer hear this answer? You'll see whether they'd move on, dig in, or say no, and which sentences would trip you up. Your score doesn't change.
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Maintainability comes from separating things with different reasons to change and letting the compiler and tests catch mistakes. Protocols at the boundaries so they're replaceable, state made explicit with enums and immutable values, and the core rules pinned down with unit tests on pure functions.

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