Show Notes
Fredrik talks to Christian Clausen about the many facets of simplicity.
The cloud and serverless was supposed to be simpler than running your own hardware, but you easily get stuck trying to select the right message bus, needing to know the intricacies of your chosen cloud provider infrastructure, and the like. You end up building your software around the infrastructure you’ve ended up with - rather than picking infrastructure which is right for your software.
The CFO should not be the architect of the software.
Core values and principles - set them up, reflect on them, and notice and decide what to do when they are broken. Should the system change if its core principles are broken, or should the principles be updated to reflect reality? Christian argues simplicity should be a core principle, and very carefully considered and encouraged.
There are enough barriers already, even before you start adding complexity around the problems you’re trying to solve.
And hide the things you do pull in behind true abstractions which don’t leak all over the place.
Don’t ask what you can add, ask what you can postpone.
Generality adds complexity. The more often something changes, the more specific it should be.
Where are the tools which suggest more things to remove instead of things to add?
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Links
Christian
Øredev 2023
Designing infrastructure-free systems - Christians Øredev 2023 talk
Merrymake - Christian’s company
Five lines of code
Nosql
Conway - don’t let HR be the architect
Christian’s blog
Spring
Quarkus - “supersonic subatomic Java”
Reactive programming
Hibernate
Gateway drug
React
Angular
Vue
Google’s serverless is actually Knative
Support us on Ko-fi!
Redux
Sonarqube
Occam’s razor
Cyclomatic complexity
Don’t repeat yourself
A/B testing
Christian on Medium
Bonus links - thanks Tomas Kronvall!
Adding two numbers in Javascript
Some additional backstory
Titles
Life happened
Serverless the right way
It’s grown a lot
I love refactoring
Just as hard as choosing hardware
Everything into one collection
I don’t want the CFO to be the architect of the software
It disappears immediately
Entropy for the real world
I came back after six years
Why though?
Why do you have this?
What problem couldn’t you solve without it?
There are enough barriers already
Just use +
Zero of the founding principles
But it looks like ice cream
I’ve always hated frameworks
I feel like I’m writing Javascript
Was the salary worth it?
Lending the money to your future self
What can I postpone?
Generalization land
Suggest I remove things!
Is this the right problem to have?
I want to say no more
Humans can build this
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