September 09, 2021

Building actually maintainable software

1 hour 11 minutes

Building software is difficult and time consuming, but the maintenance of software is where we spend the majority of our time. In this episode, Ian and sam join Johnny and Kris to discuss how to build actually maintainable software, the features of Go that make it good for writing maintainable software, and different ways that we might define the term “maintenance”.

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Featuring:

sam boyer – GitHub, X
Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Uber’s Go Style Guide

Why smart engineers write bad code

Rant about “performant”

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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