Failure-driven Development
summary
Slido turns a rush request into a four‑level quizzes in two months product (level 1 shipped in under a week), adds a random‑question generator that has served 2,040,000 views, prototypes an LLM‑powered wrong‑answer generator used by power users, and engineers a Kafka consumer to recreate MySQL cascading deletes for GDPR compliance (proof‑of‑concept, promising but not battle‑tested). Team cadence: 1,485 releases in 2021; features ship fast and iteratively from failures.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Failure-driven Development intro
- 6:21Failure to innovation at Slido
- 11:16Quizzes from failure
- 17:35AI for wrong quiz answers
- 23:38Fixing MySQL cascading deletes
- 29:18Ukuleles and team bonding
- 33:55Interactive quiz with prizes
- 42:26Embracing mistakes closing
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