Structural Design: The Ancient Secret of Simple, Fast Code
summary
An exploration of structural design with focus on the concept of balanced systems, illustrated using three real codebases ranging from 50 to 40,000 lines. The talk shows examples of unbalanced systems and the problems they cause, then demonstrates how rebalancing a system can speed up code execution (up to 300×) and team productivity (up to 3×).
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:56What is structural design
- 10:00Project Barcoder: first problem
- 23:40Project Danel: performance
- 31:34Project E: team efficiency
- 39:24Summary
- 41:33Q&A
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