How Did We End Up Here?

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Industry projects show shockingly poor outcomes: studies report about 33% success and large programs risk company failure (17% in one sample), while team size predicts collapse more than methodology. Evidence favors small teams, open source hiring via GitHub, asynchronous messaging over RPC/REST, and avoiding shared mutable state (it breeds bugs and violates scalability math such as the Universal Scalability Law). Concrete wins include recruitment by open source, Java 8 streams replacing ad hoc ORM patterns, and mission‑critical priority system design that saved Apollo landings.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 4:41Enterprise Software
3. 5:24The Architect
4. 5:58Open Source
5. 8:25Product Managers
6. 9:12The AntiPattern
7. 9:54The Wrong Way
8. 10:50Why are we doing this
9. 11:43What would you do differently
10. 12:10What are they doing
11. 12:20What are they trying to solve
12. 12:36What really matters
13. 13:09Passion and pride
14. 14:35Recruiting
15. 15:26No TCP
16. 16:17Bruce Lee
17. 16:55Focus on fundamentals
18. 17:16Technology
19. 18:06Multithreaded
20. 18:49Shared mutable state
21. 20:31Math
22. 21:32Simplicity
23. 22:40Paxton Coding
24. 22:51XML
25. 23:47Human readable
26. 24:09Binary
27. 24:38Unstructured data
28. 24:55MapReduce jobs
29. 26:18Synchronous Communication
30. 27:27Bad Stuff Happens
31. 29:45Microservices
32. 30:41Abstractions
33. 31:07The purpose of abstraction
34. 31:43The sins of abstraction
35. 32:19The Warrens
36. 33:50Streams
37. 34:03Biggest issue
38. 35:14Functional programming
39. 35:26Software transactional memory
40. 35:40Its getting worse
41. 36:22No mechanical sympathy
42. 36:45No perfect solution
43. 38:16Hardware out the problem
44. 38:29Its sloppy
45. 38:50L0 cache
46. 40:56Simplecomposable
47. 43:04Moores Law
48. 43:50Network bandwidth
49. 44:35Software
50. 46:08Stop thinking about code
51. 46:23Diversity in our industry
52. 47:06Diversity
53. 48:24Haves and Have Nots
54. 50:57Grace Hopper
55. 52:00Margaret Hamilton
56. 58:52Outro

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