Taking Care of Business - for 10 000 hours
summary
Responsible for one product for over a decade, the talk offers nine concrete shifts: stop planning every corner case and instead remove corner cases by normalizing data; stop nailing dates and use small contiguous releases (set‑based, rolling, parallel) every few days; prefer manual work early, log incoming and outgoing messages into a database and make operations idempotent; measure MTTR not mythical 99.99% coverage and focus on reduce error surface with tiny, reversible changes.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:40Ola 10 years later
- 6:30What about us
- 8:30How I approach it
- 10:10When can this be done
- 14:00Select Features
- 16:42Continuous vs contiguous
- 18:36Rolling
- 20:10Tapping
- 21:01Ideas
- 22:10Java VM
- 23:08Manual work
- 25:49Error surface
- 27:17Attacking from above
- 31:06Tom and Jerry
- 32:19Logging outgoing messages
- 35:44Refactoring
- 37:19Idioms
- 40:25Feature Flags
- 42:09Repetition
- 42:39Syntax Repetition
- 45:22Copy Paste
- 46:49Defining Everything
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