On Solving Problems - Speaker Deck

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㔳䒭䒉眠 On Solving Problems

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㔳䒭䒉眠 Or, how the present can’t lead us वैश$पायन घोष (बीजी) CTO/Co-founder  Helpshift, Inc. to our future

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㔳䒭䒉眠 The problem Human Powered Flight

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㔳䒭䒉眠 A centuries old puzzle… da Vinci’s Notebook

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㔳䒭䒉眠 Paul MacCready

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㔳䒭䒉眠 Paul MacCready Kremer Prize 1977

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㔳䒭䒉眠 Paul MacCready Kremer Prize 1977 & 1979

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㔳䒭䒉眠 The problem is, that we don’t understand the problem.

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㔳䒭䒉眠 How is it done here?

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㔳䒭䒉眠 Doghouse Pattern

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㔳䒭䒉眠 x 100 {h=3, w=3, b=3} Let’s scale this, baby!

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㔳䒭䒉眠 x 100 {h=3, w=3, b=3} Let’s scale this, baby!

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㔳䒭䒉眠 x 100 {h=3, w=3, b=3} Let’s scale this, baby!

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㔳䒭䒉眠 x 100 {h=3, w=3, b=3} It’s a feature! Let’s scale this, baby!

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㔳䒭䒉眠 Functional Imperative Object Oriented Relational Yadda Yadda Our Programming Approach

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㔳䒭䒉眠 Functional Imperative Object Oriented Relational Yadda Yadda Make and ﬁx Our Programming Approach

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㔳䒭䒉眠 Architecture n. the art or practice of designing structures

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㔳䒭䒉眠 You’re here Where we stand today

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㔳䒭䒉眠 Where we want to be You’re here

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㔳䒭䒉眠 future = f(past)

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㔳䒭䒉眠 B5000 Burroughs

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㔳䒭䒉眠 B5000 Burroughs ca. 1961 Bob Barton

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㔳䒭䒉眠 B5000 Burroughs ca. 1961 High level bytecode Automatic thread safety Capabilities Multiple processors Uncrashable(!) Bob Barton

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㔳䒭䒉眠 Internet The

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㔳䒭䒉眠 Internet The ca. 1983 Vint Cerf Bob Kahn

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㔳䒭䒉眠 Internet The ca. 1983 Capable of organic evolution Upgrade, modify running system  Never stopped since started Vint Cerf Bob Kahn

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㔳䒭䒉眠 Lessons learnt Understand the problem Ignore history at your own risk Design should be a deliberate practice Our software need to support evolution

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㔳䒭䒉眠 hack integrate test ship repeat

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㔳䒭䒉眠 hack integrate test ship repeat Grow your software. Hell, yeah!

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㔳䒭䒉眠 "We can't learn to see unless we realise we're blind!” — Alan Kay

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