Building a sustainable codebase: 7 years and counting

Peter will discuss strategies how code can be written in a way where you can both 'ship it' and have a sustainable product that allows you to move fast and where new people don't run away screaming. At least most of the time :)

The talk is based on lessons learned while building PSPDFKit for iOS since 2010, yet most parts will be applicable to any language and team. See https://github.com/steipete/speaking for details.

Transcript

1. Building a sustainable codebase: 7 years and counting Peter Steinberger - @steipete | CRAFT BUDAPEST '17
4. Technology Choices
5. Boring Is Good
7. Refactoring
10. Hacks
12. Bug Reports
14. Code Reviews
15. Code Formatting
17. Tests & Continuous Integration
19. “Whatever you gain now in convenience or speed, will at some point need to be paid back.”
20. Saying No to Features
21. People
22. Sustainable Projects → Technology Choices → Boring Is Good! → Refactoring & Technical Debt → Hacks, Bug Reports, Code Reviews → Tests + Continuous Integration → Saying No to Features
23. Thanks! blog.pspdfkit.com Peter Steinberger - @steipete | CRAFT BUDAPEST '17