Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Learning to Fail
Search
Simon de Haan
October 05, 2012
Programming
1
110
Learning to Fail
Simon de Haan
October 05, 2012
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Simon de Haan
See All by Simon de Haan
#breaktherules 2014
smn
0
44
Hack where it Matters
smn
1
180
Event Driven Architectures with Twisted
smn
0
370
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
技術を改善し続ける
gumioji
0
180
データベースのオペレーターであるCloudNativePGがStatefulSetを使わない理由に迫る
nnaka2992
0
250
Kotlinの開発でも AIをいい感じに使いたい / Making the Most of AI in Kotlin Development
kohii00
5
1.6k
Generating OpenAPI schema from serializers throughout the Rails stack - Kyobashi.rb #5
envek
1
410
kintone開発を効率化するためにチームで試した施策とその結果を大放出!
oguemon
0
300
5分で理解する SOLID 原則 #phpcon_nagoya
shogogg
1
400
ソフトウェアエンジニアの成長
masuda220
PRO
12
2.1k
読まないコードリーディング術
hisaju
0
110
sappoRo.R #12 初心者セッション
kosugitti
0
280
Honoのおもしろいミドルウェアをみてみよう
yusukebe
1
240
AWS Step Functions は CDK で書こう!
konokenj
4
790
データの整合性を保つ非同期処理アーキテクチャパターン / Async Architecture Patterns
mokuo
55
19k
Featured
See All Featured
Keith and Marios Guide to Fast Websites
keithpitt
411
22k
Cheating the UX When There Is Nothing More to Optimize - PixelPioneers
stephaniewalter
280
13k
The Invisible Side of Design
smashingmag
299
50k
Designing for humans not robots
tammielis
250
25k
For a Future-Friendly Web
brad_frost
176
9.6k
Save Time (by Creating Custom Rails Generators)
garrettdimon
PRO
29
1k
Code Reviewing Like a Champion
maltzj
521
39k
Dealing with People You Can't Stand - Big Design 2015
cassininazir
366
25k
Build your cross-platform service in a week with App Engine
jlugia
229
18k
Docker and Python
trallard
44
3.3k
実際に使うSQLの書き方 徹底解説 / pgcon21j-tutorial
soudai
175
52k
I Don’t Have Time: Getting Over the Fear to Launch Your Podcast
jcasabona
32
2.2k
Transcript
Learning to Fail Friday, October 5, 2012
Open source software to improve the lives of people living
in poverty. Friday, October 5, 2012
— Friday, October 5, 2012
Africa 1 billion people 500 million phones Friday, October 5,
2012
25 Botswana 26 Zwaziland 18 South Africa 24 Lesotho Africa
People hardest hit by HIV/AIDS are also those least likely to have access to relevant information. Friday, October 5, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012
FAIL Friday, October 5, 2012
Hindsight is a luxury. Friday, October 5, 2012
5 years of growing pains. Friday, October 5, 2012
0 6 12 18 24 30 36 Patients Not Returning
Before After Friday, October 5, 2012
How hard can it be? Friday, October 5, 2012
Deceptively simple. Lack of ownership. Being too clever. Friday, October
5, 2012
What is it we’re building? Friday, October 5, 2012
Friday, October 5, 2012
One hammer to rule them all. Friday, October 5, 2012
Hit scaling issues hard & fast. Friday, October 5, 2012
Commitment issues. Friday, October 5, 2012
800,000+ Uniques Friday, October 5, 2012
0 25000 50000 75000 100000 June 2010 October 2010 May
July Sept Nov Friday, October 5, 2012
Architecture prevented efficient caching. Friday, October 5, 2012
Metrics killed the site. Friday, October 5, 2012
Mild tunnel vision. Slight frameworkitis. Friday, October 5, 2012
Everything breaks at scale. Friday, October 5, 2012
Team Culture Implications Friday, October 5, 2012
You reproduce what you are. Friday, October 5, 2012
“Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which
are copies of the communication structures of these organizations” – Melvin Conway Friday, October 5, 2012
A software system will reflect the social structure of the
organization that produced it. Friday, October 5, 2012
Failures are to be expected. Friday, October 5, 2012
Focus on small teams, few organizational layers. Friday, October 5,
2012
Introduce small changes. Minimize risk. Friday, October 5, 2012
Ship all the time. Friday, October 5, 2012
Avoid organizational silos, reduce bus factors. Friday, October 5, 2012
Trust, Cooperation & Transparency. Friday, October 5, 2012
Emphasize learning, code reviews & shared responsibility Friday, October 5,
2012
Team communication tools are vital. Friday, October 5, 2012
Kill your darlings. Embrace change. Friday, October 5, 2012
Broken gets fixed but shitty lasts forever. Friday, October 5,
2012
Technical Implications Friday, October 5, 2012
Queue everything and delight everyone. Friday, October 5, 2012
Automate everything. Friday, October 5, 2012
Continuous Integration Friday, October 5, 2012
Code reviews. Friday, October 5, 2012
Make deploys easy. Friday, October 5, 2012
Metrics should be cheap. Friday, October 5, 2012
Failing adds value. Friday, October 5, 2012
Thanks. Friday, October 5, 2012
Thanks. Friday, October 5, 2012
@smn http://github.com/praekelt Friday, October 5, 2012