Hype Driven Development
summary
Covers real-world experience running production infrastructure for many enterprise clients using tooling like monitoring, load‑balancers, rolling updates and on‑call processes. Presents concrete war stories (e.g., a migration script that saved weeks of manual fixes, issues with tiny Alpine images causing recurring CVEs, OpenStack’s mixed success) and discusses reading code, CAP theorem trade‑offs, data gravity, and calculating ROI on technical debt.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:30Myth vs reality
- 5:44Legacy code shame
- 9:17Debt vs investment
- 13:33Tech choices bias
- 16:21Tech giants marketing
- 22:23Hello World traps
- 26:42OpenStack reality
- 30:32Semantics vs binary
- 36:17Data gravity trade-offs
- 41:48Developer's role
- 43:20Conclusion & Q&A
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