The Pony Express & How Technology Moves Fast
summary
Pony Express runs messages New York to San Francisco in 10 days but lasts only 18 months before telegraph replaces it, illustrating that workable stopgaps can be mythologized. Telegraph-era tech endures decades (Alan Turing deciphers Enigma via telegraph traffic ~80 years later). Modern claims: DevOps and automation aim to make teams own delivery and reduce risk and have existed >10 years. Mattermost pivots from a game into an open source Slack alternative and ships tools like Focalboard, which work as practical, iterated solutions.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:24Some history
- 7:33Tech philosophy
- 8:17Waterfall
- 11:28Agile
- 13:55DevOps
- 16:52TDD - Test Driven Dev.
- 18:01BDD - Behavior Driven Dev.
- 18:50SDD - Shame Driven Dev.
- 19:55Language zealotry
- 20:42Innovation: Startup world
- 23:10Innovation: Moving forward
- 24:12Conclusion
- 26:59Outro
