31. Derek goes camping

This past week, Derek went camping. While he was there he had the opportunity to tour Mammoth Cave. While inside, Derek noticed strata in the rock, created over millions of years. You may be wondering what Derek’s recent adventure at Mammoth Cave National Park has to do with software architecture. What can Mother Nature teach us about building enterprise software in a more scalable way? Derek had an epiphany. These strata are a lot like what many of our enterprise software tends to look like over time. The “MVP” we build first gets stuck under the layers upon layers of code build on top of it over the years. It becomes increasingly harder to modify this base layer the more times pass. Minor mistakes become harder to fix. Tech debt becomes harder to erase.How can we ensure our enterprise software stands the test of time? How can we ensure our software stays “soft”? How can we ensure the code we write today doesn’t hold us back tomorrow?Topics:• 04:09 – Derek’s camping adventure• 09:12 – Derek has an epiphany• 11:17 – Things won’t go the way you expect. But what did you learn?• 14:51 – Jeremy’s Deliverance moment• 16:19 – Derek has a second epiphany• 20:54 – How do we keep from creating rigid software strata?• 21:44 – Dan North’s CUPID principles might help• 23:19 – Keep your systems composableHelpful Links:• Mammoth Cave National Park • 27. CUPID: A Software Love Story with Dan North—– Thanks for listening! We hope you enjoyed today’s episode. If you liked what you heard, be sure to like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! If you enjoyed today’s episode, please leave a comment and a five-star review. It helps us out a ton. If you haven’t already, sign up for our email list. We won’t spam you. Pinky swear. • Check out our website • Follow us on twitter • Find us on Facebook • Subscribe on Google Podcasts • Subscribe on Apple Podcasts • Subscribe on Spotify • Subscribe on Stitcher Episode thumbnail by Laura Pluth on Unsplash