Boring Technologies

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

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1. Pierre Goudjo Boring Technologies
2. Let’s start with an obvious, indisputable truth
3. So ft ware is eating the world Marc Andreessen
5. There is also a reality nobody likes facing
6. Nobody likes dealing with legacy code
10. Why?
11. Truth is, most business so ft wares are not that great
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
23. Complexity due to the platforms and tools you are using or depend on Accidental complexity
26. There is no silver bullet to alleviate complexity
27. But you can,
28. 1 
 Embrace your domain complexity
30. 2 
 Keep that accidental complexity in check
32. 3 
 Carefully select your dependencies
33. Choose Boring Technologies™
35. Tools that get the least in your way of achieving business goals
36. Boring ≠ Bad
37. Simple - Proven - Reliable
39. So we can’t have fun anymore?
45. @pierregoudjo The End