Jessica Kerr Breaks Down SYSTEMS THEORY For Software Engineering | The Engineering Room Ep. 14
295Jessica Kerr talks to Dave Farley about a bunch of topics ranging from cybernetics, to systems theory, complex adaptive systems and the importance of data visualisation to observability. Jessica, known by many as @jessitron is Engineering Manager of Dev Relations at Honeycomb, a well known speaker and a symmathecist in the medium of code - which she describes as seeing development teams as learning systems made of people and running software. Jessica and Dave share a love for software development in all its complexity and in the complexity of its socio-technical setting.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Welcome
0:50 Introducing Jessica Kerr
1:50 Programming is Simpler than Quantum Mechanics!
5:35 Software is Deterministic
7:30 Is there such a thing as ‘Good’ Software?
12:30 There’s no Software without People (except maybe at Twitter!)
14:45 SW Dev is now more Maintenance than Creating new Code
19:05 Stand-Alone Systems
21:00 Our Job is to Provide Valued Capabilities
23:30 Structured Way of Learning
24:50 Modern Observability and Distributed Tracing
27:40 Florence Nightingale Data Visualisations
30:05 Making Decisions based on our Mental Models...
35:44 …and questioning them!
38:00 Working Experimentally
43:50 Type Systems and Feedback - “I Love Typescripts!”
46:45 Working with People and Grounded Theory
49:48 The Results are Better Questions
52:12 trywilco.com
55:30 The Architecture is in the Code
58:40 Zoom In and Zoom Out
1:01:20 Concrete Examples
1:03:28 Conversation as Collaboration
1:05:15 Wrap Up