Feynman Bytes Ep 3: Only a Guess (Code)
52How do we adapt humanity’s best problem-solving technique, science, to writing code?
Professor Richard Feynman was a Nobel-prize winning physicist & a genius. He was also a great educator and thinker on the topic of science. This occasional series on the Continuous Delivery channel looks at Feynman’s thinking on science and engineering to see how we can apply some of his thinking to software development.
In this episode, Dave Farley explores what it takes to be more experimental in our approach to code and design. How do we move from software craftsmanship to software engineering? Taking a more science-led approach allows us to address coding challenges, apply techniques like CI/CD, DevOps and experimental code techniques to have a dramatic impact on the quality and efficiency of our work.
Dave describes how the application of these techniques allowed his team to completely replace the Relational Database in a complex, Enterprise-scale system.
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Useful Books on this topic:
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Domain Driven Design, by Eric Evans ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WXJ94m
“Surely you are joking Mr Feynman” ➡️ https://amzn.to/2LD8mMp
(If you are unfamiliar with Richard Feynman, you can thank us for this introduction to a first-class mind and fascinating character later - This book is simply wonderful!)
Infrastructure As Code, by Kief Morris ➡️ https://amzn.to/2z39kPr
Test Driven Development: By Example (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series), Kent Beck
https://amzn.to/2NcqgGh