Beyond Developer
summary
Ada Lovelace writes the first algorithm in 1844 and Grace Hopper invents the compiler and demonstrates a nanosecond with a length of wire, anchoring the claim that tools shape roles. Agile (2001) shifts teams into cross-functional product work. Observability becomes a design goal (Charity Majors), not just monitoring. Automation sometimes buys only 45 minutes on a long lead time but exposes bottlenecks; chaos engineering (Netflix’s Chaos Monkey) and mean time to recovery reframes reliability. Build pipelines, communities of practice and impact versus influence drive larger organizational change.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:40Ada Lovelace
- 9:35Agile Manifesto
- 11:06Where we are today
- 12:58Learning a language
- 16:37Learning to play nice
- 19:07Understand the domain
- 23:32Understand the ecosystem
- 30:30Its bigger than your team
- 36:55Share the organisations values
- 39:59You are a developer
- 40:17You are beyond developer
- 42:40African proverb
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