Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

How not to have future developers curse you

Sponsored · Ship Features Fearlessly Turn features on and off without deploys. Used by thousands of Ruby developers. →
Avatar for Keith Pitty Keith Pitty
November 13, 2018
Technology
1
78

How not to have future developers curse you

Lightning talk given at rorosyd (Ruby or Rails Oceania Sydney) meetup on 13th November, 2018.

Avatar for Keith Pitty

Keith Pitty

November 13, 2018
Tweet

More Decks by Keith Pitty

See All by Keith Pitty
Succeeding with Remote Retrospectives
Avatar for Keith Pitty keithpitty
0
220
What were they thinking?
Avatar for Keith Pitty keithpitty
0
220
How not to give advice (about Markdown)
Avatar for Keith Pitty keithpitty
0
91
Why I use Guard
Avatar for Keith Pitty keithpitty
0
150
Morphing your Ruby into Civil Tech
Avatar for Keith Pitty keithpitty
0
110
Loving Legacy Code
Avatar for Keith Pitty keithpitty
0
670
Better OO Design in Rails
Avatar for Keith Pitty keithpitty
0
88

Other Decks in Technology

See All in Technology
20260204_Midosuji_Tech
Avatar for Takuya Yonezawa takuyay0ne
1
160
20260208_第66回 コンピュータビジョン勉強会
Avatar for KeiichiIto1978 keiichiito1978
0
180
Data Hubグループ 紹介資料
Avatar for Sansan, Inc. sansan33
PRO
0
2.7k
GitHub Issue Templates + Coding Agentで簡単みんなでIaC/Easy IaC for Everyone with GitHub Issue Templates + Coding Agent
Avatar for AEON aeonpeople
1
240
OWASP Top 10:2025 リリースと 少しの日本語化にまつわる裏話
Avatar for Riotaro OKADA okdt
PRO
3
820
レガシー共有バッチ基盤への挑戦 - SREドリブンなリアーキテクチャリングの取り組み
Avatar for Konishi tatsuhiro tatsukoni
0
220
15 years with Rails and DDD (AI Edition)
Avatar for Andrzej Krzywda andrzejkrzywda
0
200
小さく始めるBCP ― 多プロダクト環境で始める最初の一歩
Avatar for kekke-n kekke_n
1
450
Frontier Agents (Kiro autonomous agent / AWS Security Agent / AWS DevOps Agent) の紹介
Avatar for msysh msysh
3
180
今日から始める Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Avatar for Har1101 har1101
4
410
What happened to RubyGems and what can we learn?
Avatar for Mike McQuaid mikemcquaid
0
310
Digitization部 紹介資料
Avatar for Sansan, Inc. sansan33
PRO
1
6.8k

Featured

See All Featured
Let's Do A Bunch of Simple Stuff to Make Websites Faster
Avatar for Chris Coyier chriscoyier
508
140k
個人開発の失敗を避けるイケてる考え方 / tips for indie hackers
Avatar for panda_program panda_program
122
21k
Understanding Cognitive Biases in Performance Measurement
Avatar for Philip Tellis bluesmoon
32
2.8k
Writing Fast Ruby
Avatar for Erik Berlin sferik
630
62k
A Modern Web Designer's Workflow
Avatar for Chris Coyier chriscoyier
698
190k
Designing Dashboards & Data Visualisations in Web Apps
Avatar for Des Traynor destraynor
231
54k
We Analyzed 250 Million AI Search Results: Here's What I Found
Avatar for Josh Blyskal joshbly
1
730
エンジニアに許された特別な時間の終わり
Avatar for watany watany
106
230k
DBのスキルで生き残る技術 - AI時代におけるテーブル設計の勘所
Avatar for soudai sone soudai
PRO
62
50k
CoffeeScript is Beautiful & I Never Want to Write Plain JavaScript Again
Avatar for Sam Stephenson sstephenson
162
16k
Bioeconomy Workshop: Dr. Julius Ecuru, Opportunities for a Bioeconomy in West Africa
Avatar for AKADEMIYA2063 akademiya2063
PRO
1
54
How to Align SEO within the Product Triangle To Get 
Buy-In & Support - #RIMC
Avatar for Aleyda Solis aleyda
1
1.4k

Transcript

  1. How not to have future developers curse you @keithpitty

  2. Code

  3. What?

  4. Reflect…

  5. What can you do?

  6. New code

  7. Design principles?

  8. OO?

  9. Functional?

  10. Combination?

  11. Separation of concerns

  12. Easy to read

  13. 4 rules of simple design

  14. 1. Tests pass

  15. 2. Expresses intent

  16. 3. DRY

  17. 4. Small

  18. Automated tests

  19. Continuous Integration

  20. Continuous Deployment

  21. Maintenance

  22. Planned

  23. Upgrades!

  24. Legacy code

  25. Aim to rescue

  26. Automated tests

  27. Refactor

  28. Upgrades!

  29. Decommision?

  30. Represent developers

  31. Persuade decision-makers

  32. Educate non-developers

  33. Aim high!

  34. Up to the challenge?