The Art of the Forward Kick. A Cookbook
summary
Shows concrete examples and a cookbook of tactics for delaying decisions until more information is available, aiming to simplify solutions and avoid unnecessary work. Presents real-world examples and practical recipes for postponing and minimizing work in software projects, framed humorously as techniques used by “professional slackers.”
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 5:28TV / Phone / Internet System Customer management Persistence Number of customers and growth under Low Concurrency
- 17:07Deletion service (high scale) 2 Deletion service 3 Storage cost measurement
- 23:41Next steps: - Payment activation and data? - Use of external service?
- 24:58Reference solution: Tool selection for direct use (ansible, terraform, chef)
- 29:05DynamoDB instead of PostgreSQL Premature Microservices Premature Multithreading Premature
- 32:34Simple solutions Requires maturity Requires discussing problems Minimizes discussing solutions Keeps options open
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