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Sep 2, 2022 1 hr 14 min

Building actually maintainable software ♻️ (Changelog Interviews #504)

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This week we're sharing the most popular episode of Go Time from last year — Go Time #196. We believe this episode was the most popular because it's all about building actually maintainable software and what goes into that. Kris Brandow is joined by Johnny Boursiquot, Ian Lopshire, and Sam Boyer. There's lots of hot takes, disagreements, and unpopular opinions. This is part two of a three part mini-series led by Kris on maintenance. Make sure you check out Go Time #195 and Go Time #202 to continue the series.

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Building actually maintainable software ♻️ (Changelog Interviews #504)

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  1. 0:00 Intro
  2. 1:15 Sponsor: InfluxData
  3. 3:09 Welcome to Go Time!
  4. 5:16 Let's talk about maintenance
  5. 7:46 Johnny brings the heat
  6. 10:31 What does 'Maintainable' mean?
  7. 14:25 What does 'Un-maintainable' mean?
  8. 17:33 Code that's untestable
  9. 20:55 How does code become unmaintainable?
  10. 23:33 Sponsor: Square
  11. 24:49 Performant is a made up word
  12. 27:42 Grafana's 'Gardening Week'
  13. 29:34 1000 paper cuts
  14. 30:14 Is Gardening Week enough?
  15. 33:37 Kris compares software development to the publishing industry
  16. 35:08 Ian disagrees with Kris
  17. 36:23 Kris says maintainence shouldn't be a 'rotation'
  18. 37:15 But everyone should be aware and familar with the need to maintain code
  19. 37:55 Maintainence engineering needs to be raised to a higher level
  20. 39:44 Sponsor: Honeycomb
  21. 41:05 Sponsor: Retool
  22. 42:14 Maintainable code vs good code
  23. 45:39 The nauance of good vs maintainable
  24. 49:51 Scientifically good code
  25. 55:55 Summarizing the science of good code
  26. 57:30 What makes Go good for writting maintainable software?
  27. 1:02:07 Unpopular opinions!!
  28. 1:11:23 Closing out the show
  29. 1:12:50 Outro

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