Dave Farley

🎙️ CELEBRATE the 100th EPISODE by submitting your story/message at techleadjournal.dev/celebrate-100 🎉 “Engineering discipline is the most effective, efficient way of doing high-quality work. If our software development practices do not allow us to build better software faster, we should really change them because they are not engineering." Dave Farley is the co-author of the Jolt award-winning book “Continuous Delivery” and runs the popular “Continuous Delivery” YouTube channel on software engineering topics. In this episode, we discussed Dave’s latest book, “Modern Software Engineering”. Dave started by explaining his view on modern software engineering and why it emphasizes on practices for building better software faster. Dave described the foundations of the software engineering discipline and explained the core competencies we need to succeed by becoming experts at both learning and managing complexity. Dave also explained the importance of understanding technology fundamentals, improving software readability, and handling software complexity by managing concurrency and coupling. Towards the end, Dave shared some other tools in the modern software engineering toolkit that include Continuous Delivery. Listen out for: Career Journey - [00:08:01] Modern Software Engineering - [00:12:19] Better Software Faster - [00:14:58] Software Engineering - [00:17:22] Expert at Learning - [00:20:37] Why Agile Not Enough - [00:26:34] Expert at Managing Complexity - [00:31:49] Importance of Fundamentals & Readability - [00:36:01] Concurrency & Coupling - [00:43:57] Other Modern Software Engineering Tools - [00:51:29] 3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:57:42] _____ Dave Farley’s Bio Dave Farley, founder and consultant for Continuous Delivery Ltd., has been a programmer, software engineer, and systems architect since the early days of modern computing. With Jez Humble, Farley coauthored the best-seller Continuous Delivery. As Head of Software Development for the LMAX, he built one of the world’s fastest financial exchanges. One of the earliest adopters of agile techniques employing iterative development, continuous integration, and high levels of automated testing, he also coauthored the Reactive Manifesto. Follow Dave: Twitter – @DaveFarley77 LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-farley-a67927 Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/c/ContinuousDelivery Website – https://countinuous-delivery.co.uk Courses – https://courses.cd.training Our Sponsors DevTernity 2022 (devternity.com) is the top international software development conference with an emphasis on coding, architecture, and tech leadership skills. The lineup is truly stellar and features many legends of software development like Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, Kent Beck, Scott Hanselman, Venkat Subramaniam, Kevlin Henney, and many others! The conference takes place online, and we have the 10% discount code for you: AWSM_TLJ. Skills Matter is the global community and events platform for software professionals. You get on-demand access to their latest content, thought leadership insights as well as the exciting schedule of tech events running across all time zones. Head on over to skillsmatter.com to become part of the tech community that matters most to you - it’s free to join and easy to keep up with the latest tech trends. Like this episode? Subscribe on your favorite podcast app and submit your feedback. Follow @techleadjournal on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Pledge your support by becoming a patron. For more info about the episode (including quotes and transcript), visit techleadjournal.dev/episodes/100.

Dave Farley, a pioneering software engineer and author renowned for his expertise in continuous delivery, delves into the crucial role of human connection in software development. He champions pair programming as a key practice for boosting productivity and code quality. Farley discusses the trade-offs of remote work, emphasizing the importance of building and maintaining trust among distributed teams. He also explores AI's evolving impact on software engineering, warning against neglecting teamwork in the face of technological advancements.

Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery, is back to talk about his latest book, Modern Software Engineering, a Top 3 Software Engineering best seller on Amazon UK this September. Shipping good software starts with you giving yourself permission to do a good job. It continues with a healthy curiosity, admitting that you don’t know, and running many experiments, safely, without blowing everything up. And then there is scope creep… Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Honeycomb – Guess less, know more. When production is running slow, it’s hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? With Honeycomb you get a fast, unified, and clear understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. Join the swarm and try Honeycomb free today at honeycomb.io/changelog FireHydrant – The reliability platform for every developer. Incidents impact everyone, not just SREs. FireHydrant gives teams the tools to maintain service catalogs, respond to incidents, communicate through status pages, and learn with retrospectives. Small teams up to 10 people can get started for free with all FireHydrant features included. No credit card required to sign up. Learn more at firehydrant.com/ DEX: Sort the Madness – Join our friends at Sentry for their upcoming developer experience conference called DEX: Sort the Madness. This event will be in-person in San Francisco AND virtual on September 28. This is a free conference by developers for developers where you’ll sort through the madness and look at ways to improve workflow productivity. Learn more and register Featuring:Dave Farley – Website, XGerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XShow Notes: Gerhard’s review for Modern Software Engineering - it even has a picture! 🎧 Ship It #5 - The foundations of Continuous Delivery 🎬 Tips for Building Successful Platform Teams 🎬 The REAL Reason Cyberpunk 2077 software failed 🎬 How a Quantum Computer Works 🎬 The Difference Between DevOps and Continuous Delivery 🎬 Is DevOps Good Or Bad? 👕 Qwertee.com - Dave buys his quirky t-shirts here Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!