Resilience is coping with unexpected events and environmental change. To have resilience, you need slack. Slack in software development lets people do the little tasks that keep the work moving smoothly. That helps with everything you didn’t know you needed the software to do.
Keynote at YOW! December 2021: Software design: Beyond Boxes and Lines – Jessica Kerr – YouTube Slides Latest: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_l6zV8Lg=/ References Domain Driven Design, by Eric Evans (book) Learn Wardley Mapping, by Simon Wardley; documented by Ben Mosier (site) Team Topologies, by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais (book) Grokking Simplicity, by Eric Normand (book) Functional Programming …
Principles of Collaborative Automation How can we make our tools work with our team? Like a good team member, great tools keep us informed, implement our decisions, and help us understand errors.Drawing from aviation, medicine, and software, here are strategies for choosing and building tools that enhance us and do not frustrate us. abstract Great …
Abstract Programming is a series of frustrations. Everything we do, we could do better or faster if we only had our tools set up just so. If our error messages were a little better, our code a little cleaner, our tests a lot wider. When we spend time on this, it’s known as “yak shaving,” …
or, “Everything You Never Wanted to Know About java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService But Needed To” from StrangeLoop, 18 Sep 2014 Abstract: A careful design lets you write a concurrent application without thinking about deadlock or synchronization. Getting to that design takes a lot of thinking. This session delivers the background you need to make good decisions about concurrency …