Author: Dave Farley Publishing/Release Date: December 3, 2020 Watched/Read: January 27, 2021 Link: https://www.dropbox.com/home?preview=Dave+Farley+-+Scaling+Software+Development+(2020-12-03+at+12_03+GMT-8)+-+talk.mp4
The complexity in engineering is not in “production”. Code compiles into a stream of bytes which can then be deployed fairly trivially, with relatively low cost.
On Loose Coupling, he notes, a more accurate idea would be appropriate coupling, as modules with high cohesion can naturally be more tightly coupled.
On Good Design:
Good design is moving the things that are more closely related close together, and the things that are not closely related far apart - Kent Beck
These are not the things that we train junior developers to worry about.
If you are trying to scale up a company, the same ideas about concurrency and coupling are just as applicable.
Control the variables:
- Version control
- Infrastructure as Code
- Deployment pipelines in the context of continuous delivery
- Automated testing
All of the above allow us to make evidence-based decisions e.g. trying things out with a level of repeatability and reliability.