Devs are generating twice as much code (or more) than just 6 months ago, which is a problem for quality, reliability, and tech debt. A rational fix is available for these, but who’s acting rationally?
Scheduling update: this week, there will be a podcast episode on Wednesday and no The Pulse on Thursday.
I’m in Budapest, Hungary, this week, for Craft Conference, where I’ll be giving a keynote presentation alongside other speakers, including software engineering legend Kent Beck, who’s been on the podcast, Hillel Wayne, a formal methods expert and the author of ‘Logic for Programmers’, and Titus Winters, lead author of Software Engineering at Google.
The title of my keynote is* “Slow down to speed up”, *and I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot recently. Here are some things I’ve been seeing that I feel are relevant…
source & further reading
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com — original article
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