YAGNI

YAGNI

By Matt SwansonBusinessTechnology
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YAGNI episodes

  • GraphQL w/ Trevor Turk (Bonus: VCR)

    Matt and Trevor talk about GraphQL and try to answer the question "do we need it?" (Bonus hot takes on VCR snapshot testing)

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    Trevor Turk on Twitter // Hello Weather
    Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to


    GraphQL: The Documentary
    GraphiQL
    n+1 problems in GraphQL
    BFF: Backend for Frontend
    Graph Theory
    Schema stitching

    Bonus: VCR

    55 min
  • Friday Deploys w/ Charity Majors

    Matt and Charity talk about Friday Deploys and try to answer the question "do we need them?"

    This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!
    Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at
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    Charity Majors on Twitter // honeycomb.io
    Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to

    Friday deploy freezes are exactly like murdering puppies
    Coaching tree
    Frequency Reduces Difficulty (Martin Fowler)
    Payoff space vs consistency space
    Blame-aware postmortem
    DORA metrics

    52 min
  • RSpec w/ Justin Searls

    Justin Searls on Twitter
    Matt Swanson on Twitter

    Arrows
    Test Double

    Justin's "What do you like about RSpec" thread (2016)
    Dan North BDD
    Nate Berkopec "Reading rspec documentation like..." tweet
    Corey Haines: Fast Rails Tests
    Kent Beck: "I get paid for code that works, not for tests..."
    Nick Quaranto's minitest CLI wrapper
    Mocktail gem
    test_data gem

    52 min
  • Small user stories w/ Dave Copeland

    Dave Copeland on Twitter
    Matt Swanson on Twitter

    Arrows
    Mood Health

    Taylorism / Scientific management
    Google DORA Report
    "Agile" on TikTok
    The Joel Test
    “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” George Carlin

    52 min
  • Staging servers w/ Justin Duke

    Justin Duke on Twitter
    Matt Swanson on Twitter

    Arrows
    Buttondown

    Accidental AirBnB "test" notification
    The Pragmatic Programmer
    "SICP" book
    "We dont use a staging server" HN thread
    Checklist Manifesto
    IQ Bell Curve / Midwit - Know Your Meme

    47 min
  • Detailed commit messages w/ Chris Toomey

    Chris Toomey on Twitter
    Matt Swanson on Twitter

    Arrows
    Sagewell Financial

    Write Good Commit Messages by Blaming Others
    The seven rules of a good git commit message
    David Hemphill - WIP
    Hot Ones
    Russian Roulette and expected value 

    54 min

About YAGNI

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You Ain't Gonna Need It, the podcast where we look at software practices and tools and ask: "do we need it?"