#100 - Modern Software Engineering - Dave Farley

<p>🎙️ CELEBRATE the 100th EPISODE by submitting your story/message at techleadjournal.dev/celebrate-100 🎉<br> </p> <p><em>“Engineering discipline is the most effective, efficient way of doing high-quality work. If our software development practices do not allow us to build better software faster, we should really change them because they are not engineering."</em></p> <p>Dave Farley is the co-author of the Jolt award-winning book “Continuous Delivery” and runs the popular “Continuous Delivery” YouTube channel on software engineering topics. In this episode, we discussed Dave’s latest book, “Modern Software Engineering”. Dave started by explaining his view on modern software engineering and why it emphasizes on practices for building better software faster. Dave described the foundations of the software engineering discipline and explained the core competencies we need to succeed by becoming experts at both learning and managing complexity. Dave also explained the importance of understanding technology fundamentals, improving software readability, and handling software complexity by managing concurrency and coupling. Towards the end, Dave shared some other tools in the modern software engineering toolkit that include Continuous Delivery.</p> <p>Listen out for:</p> <ul> <li>Career Journey - [00:08:01]</li> <li>Modern Software Engineering - [00:12:19]</li> <li>Better Software Faster - [00:14:58]</li> <li>Software Engineering - [00:17:22]</li> <li>Expert at Learning - [00:20:37]</li> <li>Why Agile Not Enough - [00:26:34]</li> <li>Expert at Managing Complexity - [00:31:49]</li> <li>Importance of Fundamentals &amp; Readability - [00:36:01]</li> <li>Concurrency &amp; Coupling - [00:43:57]</li> <li>Other Modern Software Engineering Tools - [00:51:29]</li> <li>3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:57:42]</li> </ul> <p>_____</p> <p><em>Dave Farley’s Bio</em><br> Dave Farley, founder and consultant for Continuous Delivery Ltd., has been a programmer, software engineer, and systems architect since the early days of mode