Show Notes
In this episode, I was joined by Chris “Woody” Woodruff to chat about a simplicity-first approach to software architecture. Chris has a book coming out on this topic, and we discussed why simplicity should be the default. For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here
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