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Modern Software Engineering
- Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster
- Narrated by: Amy Gordon
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
Improve Your Creativity, Effectiveness, and Ultimately, Your Code
In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their colleagues. Writing for programmers, managers, and technical leads at all levels of experience, Farley illuminates durable principles at the heart of effective software development. He distills the discipline into two core exercises: learning and exploration and managing complexity.
For each, he defines principles that can help you improve everything from your mindset to the quality of your code, and describes approaches proven to promote success. Farley’s ideas and techniques cohere into a unified, scientific, and foundational approach to solving practical software development problems within realistic economic constraints. This general, durable, and pervasive approach to software engineering can help you solve problems you haven’t encountered yet, using today’s technologies and tomorrow’s. It offers you deeper insight into what you do every day, helping you create better software, faster, with more pleasure and personal fulfillment.
- Clarify what you’re trying to accomplish.
- Choose your tools based on sensible criteria.
- Organize work and systems to facilitate continuing incremental progress.
- Evaluate your progress toward thriving systems, not just more "legacy code".
- Gain more value from experimentation and empiricism.
- Stay in control as systems grow more complex.
- Achieve rigor without too much rigidity.
- Learn from history and experience.
- Distinguish "good" new software development ideas from "bad" ones.
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- Scott Sellers
- 06-11-23
A must read/listen for a Software Engineer
Excellent book with some excellent ideas. A must for anyone who is (or wishes to be) a software engineer regardless of experience!
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- Anne-Yael Halevi
- 10-03-23
Excellent book.
This book provides the best explanation I have read on why software developers should do agile project development and use TDD.
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- Simon, Oxford
- 31-08-24
A transformational book
I have been writing software for over 30 years and this book has opened my eyes to a new way of thinking about my work that I will enjoy mastering over the next 30 years. Thank you Dave.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-09-23
A must listen for every software engineer
The book very elegantly puts practices like TDD, agile, separation of concerns and more, into a easily followable practical guidelines.
I do recommend that before listening to this you have a year or so of software engineering experience because then the message will be more clear.
I definately recommended this to anybody who wishes to take their software engineering skills to the next level.
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- Love Goats
- 26-10-24
Comprehensive and thought provoking!
This is a must for ALL software engineers, aspiring engineers and those managing engineers. if you don't write code in the ways described in this book, you really need to start!
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- Stefanos Rusmigo
- 13-11-23
Inconsequential
It did not add much value on how to actually do anything. Alot of rumbling in this book, in my opinion.
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- Przemyslaw
- 31-01-24
Interesting ideas, but too vague
Things I will take away from this book: TDD, constant releases, testability, software engineering = better software faster.
For the rest of it, I don't think I will remember. It was too vague, had too many metaphors and could use some real life examples. I had hoped for something better.
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