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Engineering for Software

on YouTube 37m
Talkat Craft Conference 2022 · 2022-06-02..06-03· [engineering-leadership]

speaker

name:Dave Farley
bluesky:davefarley77.bsky.social

resources

video:https://youtu.be/fxOg80zg1dI
slides:none on file

summary

Argues that software engineering equals optimizing for learning and managing complexity using practical tools: Testability & Speed, automated deployment pipeline, and test‑driven development (red‑green‑refactor with dependency injection). Cites building a world‑class financial exchange that gets definitive releasability answers in under five minutes for development and aims for production validation in under an hour. Demonstrates a small refactor (car/engine) that makes code more modular, loosely coupled, and easier to test and change.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 0:49Engineering for Software
  3. 6:07Optimise for Learning
  4. 12:56Principles of Applying Engineering Thinking
  5. 17:18What Makes Code Testable?
  6. 27:32What Really Works?

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