September 21, 2022

Modern Software Engineering (Ship It! #71)

1 hour 22 minutes

Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery, is back to talk about his latest book, Modern Software Engineering, a Top 3 Software Engineering best seller on Amazon UK this September. Shipping good software starts with you giving yourself permission to do a good job. It continues with a healthy curiosity, admitting that you don’t know, and running many experiments, safely, without blowing everything up. And then there is scope creep…

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Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Gerhard’s review for Modern Software Engineering - it even has a picture!

🎧 Ship It #5 - The foundations of Continuous Delivery

🎬 Tips for Building Successful Platform Teams

🎬 The REAL Reason Cyberpunk 2077 software failed

🎬 How a Quantum Computer Works

🎬 The Difference Between DevOps and Continuous Delivery

🎬 Is DevOps Good Or Bad?

👕 Qwertee.com - Dave buys his quirky t-shirts here

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