Shapes of Development

Gleb Bahmutov

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a closed plane curve every point of which is equidistant from a fixed point within the curve

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Effective communication matters

Simplicity matters

Waterfall

Agile spiral

Agile spiral

Testing Pyramid

unit

integration

E2E

Testing Trapezoid

unit

static types

integration

E2E

crash reporting

Acquisition Funnel

Acquisition Funnel

T-shape

If you know Node

  • Databases
  • Front end
  • Styles
  • User experience
  • Performance
  • Security

Learning fast

Approximate:

value doubles every 72 / rate (%)

At 5% per month, value doubles after 20 months

14

At 10% per month, value doubles after 10 months

7

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user / repo
devDependencies
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Use

npm publish
npm i foo

NPM registry

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Use

docker build
docker push
docker run

Docker hub

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Other shapes

Stack (networking)

Transform (algorithms)

Unidirectional (data flow)

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Shapes of Development

Shapes of Development

By Gleb Bahmutov

Shapes of Development

A geometric shape is simple to remember and visualize concept, familiar to any child. In software development we have a few concepts with associated shapes: agile is shown as a spiral curve, waterfall as, well, a waterfall, etc. In this presentation I will show the shapes that describe other modern development approaches and architectural styles.

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