Lazy Engineering_Jake Levine _Codemotion Berlin 2019

It’s okay to be lazy! Laziness is your mind telling you that something might be overly complicated or difficult. This feeling can be taken advantage of to help you grow as a developer! Engineering problems often have infinite solutions, and in this talk we will discuss how to follow your lazy instinct to find ones that are simpler and faster, and ironically allow you to become much more productive! We will question project requirements that sound hard, we look at how to limit the amount of work your brain needs to do, and we will find out how to ‘get comfy’ in your environment.

About:
Jake Levine Staff Software Engineer - Meetup

I am a Staff Software Engineer who has been with Meetup for 9 years. I joined the team as an intern while studying Software Engineering at McGill University in Montreal, QC. I recently moved to Berlin, Germany from NYC to help Meetup open it's first ever office in Europe. I have had many roles in my time with the company, including being a manager and engineering lead. Outside of work, my primary interests are travel and food - in particular I love Japanese food, and love going to new places and especially exploring Europe!

Transcript

1. Lazy Engineering Jake Levine 12-13 November, 2019
2. Who am I? Jake Levine Staff Engineer @ Meetup in Berlin Started there 9.5 years ago as an intern. Over a year ago, moved here from NYC to be a founding member of Meetup’s Berlin HQ! Self proclaimed lazy engineer
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5. Laziness
7. Solving Every Problem
8. Accounting for every possibility
9. Working on everything at once
10. Knows everything
12. Solving Every Problem
14. Accounting for every possibility
16. Working on everything at once
18. Knows everything
23. Laziness Principles
24. 1. Question requirements
31. Example Project Customer with large list of contacts can use Mailchimp to send email campaigns to those contacts • User can authorize their Mailchimp account to connect with their Meetup account • User can select one of their Mailchimp mailing list to synchronize with • When authorization is complete, selected Mailchimp mailing list is synchronized with their current contact list • Once per day, their selected Mailchimp mailing list is synchronized with their current contact list • If authentication error occurs, user is alerted and can reauthenticate • User can disconnect the integration
33. Example Project Customer with large list of contacts can use Mailchimp to send email campaigns to those contacts • User can authorize their Mailchimp account to connect with their Meetup account • User can select one of their Mailchimp mailing list to synchronize with • When authorization is complete, selected Mailchimp mailing list is synchronized with their current contact list • Once per day, their selected Mailchimp mailing list is synchronized with their current contact list • If authentication error occurs, user is alerted and can reauthenticate • User can disconnect the integration • User can easily get their contacts into mailchimp
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35. 1. Question requirements 2. Keep it simple
46. No Database High High High High None Infinite
52. 1. Question requirements 2. Keep it simple 3. Do fewer things at once
61. 1. Question requirements 2. Keep it simple 3. Do fewer things at once 4. Remember less
63. Python len(arr) Java arr.size() (Collections) / arr.length (Arrays) C sizeof(array)/sizeof(arrayEl) JS arr.length Ruby arr.length OR arr.size OR arr.count Scala arr.length() OR arr.size() PHP sizof(arr) OR count(arr) C# arr.Length Swift arr.count Go len(arr) R length(arr) Perl scalar @arr;
72. 1. Question Requirements 2. Keep it Simple 3. Do fewer things at once 4. Remember less
73. Questions? Reach me at: https://jakelevine.dev/