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Software has a strange way of rewarding patience.
When Marta first introduced TPF into the project, some of her colleagues quietly wondered if the pipeline would become just another obstacle everyone would have to avoid. A few months later, those worries faded. The framework became background noise, the business continued to develop, and people only discussed the architecture when they really needed to.
Marta thought that was probably a good sign.
In the meantime, the application had evolved. A second developer joined the team, another carrier integrated, customer support got a small dashboard to check failed orders, and finance requested a daily reconciliation process. None of these changes altered the application's core function. They simply made it more useful.
