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Scaling the Software Artisan

on YouTube 36m
Talkat RailsConf 2018 · 2018-04-17..04-19· [career-development]

speaker

name:Coraline Ada Ehmke
website:http://where.coraline.codes/

resources

video:https://youtu.be/tHxssXfymOE
slides:none on file

summary

Argues that software shifts from bespoke craft to interchangeable parts, showing concrete historical parallels (Maudslay lathe, Eli Whitney demo) and modern numbers: Contributor Covenant (40,000+ adoptions), 87 million Facebook profiles harvested, Grindr sharing HIV data for 3.6M daily users, 72% of resumes filtered by algorithms. Explains practical jobs for seniors — standardize, extract libraries, mentor, audit ethics — and cites cloud, gems, AWS and a book project at compassionatecoder.com as actual tools and outputs to judge whether the ideas are actionable.

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chapters (10)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 18:54Should we solve this problem with code?
  3. 19:45Is this something we should build ourselves?
  4. 21:11How do we want to do things around here?
  5. 21:27How do we build consensus?
  6. 22:19How do we spread best practices?
  7. 23:14Do we have a good mix of people?
  8. 23:30Are we pairing people in an effective way?
  9. 24:17What can I do to level the team up?
  10. 32:59Algorithms can be weapons.

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