Proactive Programming

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Proactive programming claims that investing up front in foundation, tests and monitoring prevents later firefights; it favors a tight feedback loop of unit tests, CI/CD and observability over hacking straight to production. Tools named include ElasticStack Humio Splunk Travis CI and chaos tools like Gremlin, with an emphasis on sub-second latency queries and live-system experiments. Tradeoffs are explicit: initial work takes longer, risk of wasted effort if the anticipated failure never happens, but pivots (a game turned chat app) can validate the approach.

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1. 0:00Proactive Programming intro
2. 3:18Proactive vs Reactive
3. 6:30Reactive development problems
4. 12:52Core principles
5. 15:41Feedback loops
6. 17:04Tools for proactive systems
7. 18:05Chaos engineering
8. 19:06Observability as tool
9. 23:21Balancing tools and judgment
10. 26:08Q&A

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