Big Bangs, Monorails and Microservices - Feb 2020
- 1. BIG BANGS, MONORAILS, AND MICRO SERVICES LESSONS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE SIMPSONS VICTOR SZOLTYSEK VICTOR_SZOLTYSEK@MAC.COM
- 7. IT'S GOOD TO LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES. IT'S BETTER TO LEARN FROM OTHER PEOPLE'S MISTAKES. Warren Buffet
- 24. HOMER - “I ACCIDENTALLY PROVED THERE'S NO GOD.”
- 30. AM I SO OUT OF TOUCH?
- 31. NO. IT'S THE CHILDREN WHO ARE WRONG.
- 33. I AM SO SMART! , S-M-R-T!
- 34. Actual Ability PerceivedAbility Dunning Kruger Effect Imposter Syndrome
- 45. ♪ MONORAIL ♪
- 47. AND THAT WAS THE LAST FOLLY THAT SPRINGFIELD EMBARKED UPON … EXCEPT FOR THE POPSICLE-STICK SKYSCRAPER… AND THE 50-FOOT MAGNIFYING GLASS... AND THAT ESCALATOR TO NOWHERE.
- 50. MARGE - “WE SHOULD HAVE SPENT THE MONEY TO FIX MAIN STREET” HOMER - “YOU SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN A SONG LIKE THAT GUY”
- 54. WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE OPPORTUNITY COSTS?
- 55. LOOK AT THIS, MARGE. $58 AND ALL OF IT PROFIT! I'M THE SMARTEST BUSINESSMAN IN THE WORLD. STAMPY'S FOOD BILL TODAY WAS $300.
- 56. PREMATURE OPTIMIZATION - THAT’S A PADDLIN’
- 73. HOMER I WANT YOU TO DESIGN A CAR I DON'T WANNA SEE ANYTHING UNTIL IT'S FINISHED.
- 78. I INVESTED IN PUMPKINS. THEY’VE BEEN GOING UP THE WHOLE MONTH OF OCTOBER AND I GOT A FEELING THEY'RE GOING TO PEAK RIGHT AROUND JANUARY.
- 90. RECAP
- 91. CONSIDER THE HUMAN SIDE YOU’RE NOT SPECIAL!
- 92. DON’T REARRANGE DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC
- 97. ▸ Premature Optimization / Modularization ▸ Excessive Microservices ▸ Kubernetes + Containers ▸ Scala / Lagom / Functional ▸ Reactive Programming + Premature Optimization ▸ Single Page Apps (ReactJS, Angular, etc) ▸ Programming Languages as Silver Bullets ▸ DIY Platforms / Frameworks / Common Libraries ▸ CQRS or unnecessary eventing ▸ Branching (of any kind) ▸ Staffing ▸ Developer Context Switching ▸ Projects instead of Projects ▸ Developers on multiple products ▸ Over-reliance on off-shore or contractors ▸ Silos and Handoffs ▸ Wishful thinking around Staffing SMELLS - CHEAT SHEET*
- 98. ▸ KPI’s / Metrics ▸ Skin-in-the-Game ▸ 2 Pizza Teams ▸ VSM’s ▸ “undifferentiated heavy lifting" ▸ 7 Wastes of Lean ▸ YAGNI ▸ Cost / Benefit / Opportunity Cost ▸ Retrospectives ▸ Autonomous Feedback / Exit Interviews TOOLBOX - CHEAT SHEET*
- 100. THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE SIMPSONS
- 102. COMEDY
- 103. SATIRE
- 104. SATIRE
- 105. HEART
- 106. LIFE LESSONS
- 107. LIFE LESSONS
- 109. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SIMPSONS ?
- 110. ZOMBIE SIMPSONS ▸ Move from Heart / Satire to the Absurd ▸ Writing Team Changes ▸ Moved onto Futurama / Conan O’Brian show ▸ Deaths ▸ Phil Hartman ▸ Lunch Lady Dorris ▸ Maude Flanders ▸ Character Changes ▸ Skinner turns out to be an Imposter ▸ Barney gives up alcohol