Modularity As It Applies to Everything
summary
Argues that modularity’s value is concrete: it postpones hard decisions and lets components evolve, evidenced by things already built (icon editor, waveform graphs, digital waveform datatype) that continue to work and be reused; reports a field‑architect program that drove customers to buy seven times more NI products; recommends open‑sourcing the LabVIEW robotics module (last updated 2019 32bit), rebuilding academic outreach, and designing organizations with defined interfaces and semi-independent trajectories so modules can be tested, swapped, and scaled.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:45Modularity in systems
- 13:15Modular organizations
- 28:37Modularity at NI
- 34:20Top-down vs bottom-up code
- 36:50Evaluating modular designs
- 45:16Postponing decisions
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