July 07, 2023

Ep. 10 - Lessons Learned: Volume 1

30 minutes

In this episode, Ben & Chris talk through their lessons learned as software developers, DevOps engineers and engineering leadership over 20+ years of building software. These lessons are things we've learned the hard way and ones we've come to live by at Surton.

DRY but not too DRY

Least complexity principle

Code readability matters

In human time – code is read more than executed

Don’t drink the zealot’s Koolaid

Don’t solve problems that don’t exist

Analysis Paralysis

Intro and Outro music is “Chip’s Folly” by LAZY SALON and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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