The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction

One of the most useful things I learned in all this was that many of the things we were building had a very simple concept at their heart: the log. Sometimes called write-ahead logs or commit logs or transaction logs, logs have been around almost as long as computers and are at the heart of many distributed data systems and real-time application architectures.

Disributed Systems Event Sourcing Software Engineering

 Consistency Models

Architecture Disributed Systems Software Engineering

 Why embracing complexity is the real challenge in software today

The reason we can’t just wish away or “fix” complexity is that every solution — whether it’s a technology or methodology — redistributes complexity in some way. Solutions reorganize problems. When microservices emerged, they seemingly solved many of the maintenance and development challenges posed by monolithic architectures

Design Philosophy Software Engineering

 Kent Beck - 3X Explore/Expand/Extract

Before you can evaluate a method, you have to understand its goals. Before you can evaluate a style of software engineering, you have to understand its goals. Quick execution of experiments? Rapid scaling in the face of unexpected bottlenecks? Sustained, profitable growth? Each goals requires a different style and yet we talk about software engineering as if it should be one thing. This talk introduces 3X and the ways software development, quality assurance, design, management, financing, planning, and staffing change depending on the goal of development. Consistently challenges software engineering dogma, promoting ideas like patterns, test-driven development, and Extreme Programming. Currently affiliated with Three Rivers Institute and Agitar Software, he is the author of many Addison-Wesley titles.

Kent Beck Software Engineering Video