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Boring Technologies

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December 30, 2021
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Boring Technologies

We are drowning ourselves in complex software. Time to rethink our technology stack

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Pierre GOUDJO

December 30, 2021

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Transcript

  1. Pierre Goudjo Boring Technologies

  2. Let’s start with an obvious, indisputable truth

  3. So ft ware is eating the world Marc Andreessen

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  5. There is also a reality nobody likes facing

  6. Nobody likes dealing with legacy code

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  10. Why?

  11. Truth is, most business so ft wares are not that

    great
  12. None

  13. The original code wasn’t written to cope with changes, making

    updates very di ff i cult

  14. How do we turn devs from

  15. How do we turn devs from

  16. How do we turn devs from

  17. How do we turn devs from

  18. By alleviating complexity

  19. There are two root causes of so ft ware complexities

  20. Complexity inherent to your domain Essential complexity

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  23. Complexity due to the platforms and tools you are using

    or depend on Accidental complexity
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  26. There is no silver bullet to alleviate complexity

  27. But you can,

  28. 1 
 Embrace your domain complexity

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  30. 2 
 Keep that accidental complexity in check

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  32. 3 
 Carefully select your dependencies

  33. Choose Boring Technologies™

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  35. Tools that get the least in your way of achieving

    business goals

  36. Boring ≠ Bad

  37. Simple - Proven - Reliable

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  39. So we can’t have fun anymore?

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  45. @pierregoudjo The End