Learning from Big Public Software Failures | Kevlin Henney In The Engineering Room Ep. 6
416In this episode of “The Engineering Room” Dave Farley chats with renowned author, speaker and expert software developer Kevlin Henney.
In fact "The one and only Kevlin Henney" - literally! He has a google-unique name: try it!
Kevlin is a member of the ACCU and IEEE Software Advisory Board.
Famous for works on Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture and Big Public Software Failures.
He has published several ‘anthology' books, including: "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know - Collective Wisdom from the Experts”
In their wide-ranging discussion they talk about:
• Why Kevlin Henney is famous for big public software failures!
• Software Engineering, mathematics and the interesting gap between formal programming and sloppy humans.
• Architecture, empiricism and three ideas for design.
• Coping with incomplete knowledge and making stuff that works in the real world.
• Confidence, certainty and loose-coupling.
• Learning from actual failure, not just simulation.
• Programming is deceptively easy to start, and gets complicated really quickly: Low Code is no exception.
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The SOLID Design Principles Deconstructed ➡️ https://youtu.be/tMW08JkFrBA
Six Impossible Things ➡️ https://youtu.be/YoaZzIZFErI
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Welcome
00:28 Introducing Kevlin Henney
02:25 Famous for Public Software Failures
06:20 Edge Cases & Error Paths
08:00 The Birth of Software Engineering - Margaret Hamilton
11:40 NATO Software Engineering Conference (Germany, 1968) - 50+ years on
15:40 Trade-Offs - Patterns are Not Universal
17:50 Design-Thinking & Empiricism
20:00 Programming is NOT Mathematics
23:10 "When I throw it, does it stick?" - simulation and the real world
24:00 The interesting gap between formal process and sloppy humans
27:20 Three Ideas for Design
31:20 Context is King
33:50 Beyond Metaphor
35:00 Interviewing Simon Singh and Fermat’s Last Theorem
36:00 Engineering is Pragmatic - "Just the stuff that works"
38:20 SpaceX & Learning from Failure
41:00 Assumptions - the Pros and Cons of Prior Knowledge
44:00 Production of Variation; Quality Software is Easy to Change
45:45 Coping with Incomplete Knowledge - Confidence, Certainty and Loose-Coupling
49:25 Java - the Impact of Checked Exceptions
54:00 Stability, Maturity and Actual Experience
55:00 Usability
56:50 Being Thread Safe
1:01:40 Concurrency and Coupling are Difficult Problems
1:13:40 Low Code - Spreadsheets and Hidden Dependencies
1:21:00 Walking not Running - Create Opportunities to Observe, Change and Learn
1:26:00 End