I love how wisely coding a change means that subsequent changes can be made in moments.
In this particular case, there was some vendor#1-specific fallback logic that was needed. By implementing the fallback logic generically and keeping things fairly data-driven, when vendor#2 turned out to ALSO need some fallback logic, it was as simple as extending the list of columns-to-check. Under 30 seconds and deployed.
Not only faster, but the logic/code-paths had already been tested.
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