Notes > First, It Must Work
Thoughts on priorities in software development
- So much stuff doesn’t work – bugs stop you from accomplishing your desired task
- Over time, complexity creeps in, making changes gets harder
- The focus on performance, serverless, microservices, etc. – these increase complexity, reduce reliability
- Everyone agrees that the current status quo sucks, but we disagree on the solution: go back to how things worked in the past, or continue down the path we’re on with the hope that things will improve
Links
- The Grug Brained Developer
- Even Amazon can’t make sense of serverless or microservices
- Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
- When to Build Millennia Sewers
- We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study
- Choose Boring Technology
- There’s still no silver bullet
- No one actually wants simplicity
- Keep your stack short
- Making Software Last Forever
- The Market for Lemons
- The time to unmaintainable is very low
References
- “Second-guessing the modern web - macwright.com”; backed up 2023-07-04 01:51:17 UTC
- “In defense of the modern web - DEV Community”; backed up 2023-07-04 01:51:24 UTC
- “The Grug Brained Developer”; backed up 2023-05-12 13:08:33 UTC
- “Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices”; backed up 2023-05-12 14:09:23 UTC
- “Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software”; backed up 2023-06-20 16:28:39 UTC
- “When to Build Millennia Sewers”; backed up 2023-07-03 00:32:43 UTC
- “We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computer problems, says study”; backed up 2023-07-03 21:19:28 UTC
- “Dan McKinley :: Choose Boring Technology”; backed up 2023-07-04 03:40:17 UTC
- “There's still no silver bullet |> Changelog”; backed up 2023-07-04 16:04:24 UTC
- “No one actually wants simplicity - lukeplant.me.uk”; backed up 2023-09-09 02:23:06 UTC
- “Keep your stack short | Aaron Bushnell”; backed up 2023-10-25 14:21:17 UTC
- “Dan Stroot · Blog · Making Software Last Forever”; backed up 2023-11-13 04:44:27 UTC
- “The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted”; backed up 2024-02-26 03:15:24 UTC
- “The time to unmaintainable is very low | daverupert.com”; backed up 2024-02-26 05:14:52 UTC