Software that Fits in Your Head • Dan North • GOTO 2016

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2016
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Dan North - Agile Troublemaker, Developer, Originator of BDD @daniel-terhorst-north
ABSTRACT
Software gets complicated fast. Most of good architecture and design practise is about trying to slow the rate at which software gets complicated. You can't stop it, it's a form of entropy. You can only slow it down and do your level best to stay on top [...]
TIMECODES
0:00 Introduction
0:19 What is the goal of software development?
1:28 The goal is not to produce software!
3:53 Code is not the asset...
6:29 understanding code
9:49 Two complementary patterns
10:01 Short Software Half-Life
22:01 Fits In My Head - multiple dimensions
31:16 Replaceable Component Architecture Sustainably.
35:47 Microservices can be a Replaceable Component Architecture
36:40 Kill code fearlessly!
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[@lukegordon4734]

Always find this a valuable talk to refer developers to, if nothing else to give a different and important perspective on software development

[@rickbo5858]

Most of the advice he gave came probably from E.W. Dijkstra. Not that it is a bad thing or something, but this is known since the 80's and he hasn't added a new take on it.

[@nyrtzi]

So Clojure sounds like Python with one usually pretty obvious and readable way of doing things and Scala is like Perl with zillions of ways of doing things which makes reading code more complicated than it needs to be.

[@Sergejack]

What do you replace Unit testing (and mock) with?

[@andreichasovskikh5751]

GotFedUpOfThePopupBoutNickName he didn't claim that you should stop using unit tests and mocks. He just said that because mocks are free, people just use them and don't pay attention that having lots of things to mock is a smell actually. A smell which tells you're going the wrong direction.

[@Sergejack]

I remember him saying something like ~don't use mock test the real whole thing~

[@andreichasovskikh5751]

GotFedUpOfThePopupBoutNickName rewatch it then.

[@Sergejack]

Wow, that was helpful, skankhunt42.

[@treenopie]

So he talks about TDD/mock about here: 23:00