No Silver Bullets

Bryan and Steve Klabnik discuss Fred Brooks' essay "No Silver Bullets"--ostensibly apropos of nothing!--discussing the challenges to 10x (or 100x!) improvements in software engineering.In addition to Bryan Cantrill speakers on included Steve Klabnik, Ian Grunert, and Tom Lyon.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:No Silver Bullet by Fred BrooksSub-podcasting (it's a thing!) thisvideo: Fred Brooks speaking on No Silver BulletRuby on Rails demo (2005)Future of coding podcastAmdahl's lawFizzBuzzEnterpriseEditionKnuth and McIlroy Approach a ProblemIf we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!