“Software Engineering is a solved problem”
— @davefarley77.bsky.social

Want to know the best books I’ve read? Simple:
Those co-authored by @jezhumble.net. There are 4 of them:

– Continuous Delivery (2010)
– Lean Enterprise (2014)
– The DevOps Handbook (2015 1st ed. / 2021 2nd ed.)
– Accelerate (2018)

#ContinuousDelivery #LeanStartup #LeanSoftwareDevelopment #DevOps

“It should be possible for a new team member to sit down at a new workstation, check out the project’s revision control repository, and run a single command to build and deploy the application to any accessible environment, including the local development workstation.”

Continuous Delivery, 2010.

Why is it so hard to find good software engineers?

There's really no mystery. It's because you didn't train any.

If you're not able to spell out clearly the tradeoffs you're making, I wouldn't call that "pragmatic"...

“One of the most important means to successfully employing DDD on a project is to hire good people. DDD is an advanced philosophy and technique for developing software, and it calls for above-average developers, even very good developers.”

DDD Distilled (2016),
@vaughnvernon.bsky.social

“There should be 2 tasks for a human to perform to deploy software into any environment: to pick the version and the environment, and press the ‘deploy’ button.”

Continuous Delivery (2010), @davefarley77.bsky.social & @jezhumble.net.