Proper logging doesn't take more time, it just takes more discipline / giving a damn. People and companies that say:
we don't have time to do it right
Almost always mean:
we don't know how to do it right
You're not wrong. But we're talking startups here, not established companies. It's publish or perish time.
When the company has enough breathing room, circle back around and do it the way the big boys do.
I disagree. Publish or perish includes time to triage issues, bugfixes, and new developer onboarding.
If logging is fubar'd then all 3 of those are impacted.
If you're pushing a PoC out the door. Sure, go on ahead and forgo proper logging. But if you're secured some form of series funding and need to scale. Fix your boat before you launch.
Disagree here.
You can go without lots of tooling and aim for simple and effective. You can even let in code that won't be perfect in the future (probably you'd be prematurely optimizing for the unknown future). But defensive programming will save you time.
Non shitty logging takes minimal time, like, so minimal. It will make many bugs and customer issues trivial to fix.
In the least, use something like Sentry. Makes up a lot for not logging because it adds the context with your uncaught exceptions.
