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YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering Why Does Platform Engineering So Often End In FAILURE?

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And there’s me thinking that they were “the old docker” 😁

Microservices were the answer… but in 2025, many teams are questioning whether it's worth the complexity. Are modular monoliths the new microservices? 👀

Dave Farley on How To Refactor Bad Legacy Code Dave Farley starts a new mini-series to demonstrate the application of techniques like Approval Testing and code refactoring and applies them to some very nasty code.

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Will AI Code Create MOUNTAINS Of Technical Debt? | @trishagee.bsky.social & @stevesmithtech.bsky.social

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Slide titled "The State of CD 2025." It summarizes findings from a study on nearly 100 organizations. The slide shows that most companies succeed in cultural aspects like autonomous teams, pipeline discipline, and process flow. However, many struggle with technical areas such as trunk-based development (35% adoption), test automation (42% coverage), and complete deployment pipelines (47%). It concludes that the top 10% of companies excel by investing in robust test automation, daily deployments, rollback pipelines, and observability.

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Insightful and encouraging as it gives a clear path for improvement.

The study looked at nearly 100 organizations and how well they apply 14 key Continuous Delivery practices.

Most are doing well culturally. Technically? Not so much.

YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering The TRUTH About Great Software Delivery (and Why You’re Missing It)

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YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering The Manager Who Almost Made Me QUIT Being A Software Developer

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Book Launch! The Software Developers’ Guidebook A Collection of Modern Engineering Practices

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A photo of Dave and Kelvin with their heads titled, slight grimaces on their faces and looking in odd directions. Very much a 90s rockstar photography aesthetic

Remember those two DJs who took Ibiza to England during the acid house craze of 1988? Listen to the new double CD DJ-mix album from DJ @davefarley77.bsky.social and DJ @kevlin.bsky.social on your favourite streaming services today for an unhealthy dose of dancefloor classics. It’s a scorcher. 🙂

Can We FIX Agile for Software Engineers? | One Big Question w/ @kevlin.bsky.social & @davefarley77.bsky.social

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YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering Learn To LOVE Your Legacy Code

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Tomorrow night on the Modern Software Engineering channel at 7pm (UK) 📅

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Yes, lots, sponsors for my YT channel for a start, Equal Experts and TransFICC but many more too. “Is it mainstream” probably not, “should it be more widely practiced?” Certainly!

Well the idea of “the test writing part” in TDD is that you use it to design the external view of how to use your code. So the point of my TDD training is to help to teach them that kind of thinking. So I’d hope they didn’t struggle too much.

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I am pretty sure It was my first thought when writing my first test, when I did this exercise for the first time, but that was a while ago!

No, I just thought adding fractions was interesting enough as a problem to exercise some design thinking, and simple enough for people to not get too lost in understanding the problem. I still like it for those reasons!

Echoes of AI: Investigating the Downstream Effects of AI Assistants on Software Maintainability [Context] AI assistants, like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, are transforming software engineering. While several studies highlight productivity improvements, their impact on maintainability requires furt...

Here’s one that @davefarley77.bsky.social was involved in (and Equal Experts where I do my day job, though I wasn’t involved in the study) arxiv.org/abs/2507.00788

We asked our expert presenter's to each give us 5 pieces of advice that Software Engineers can TRY TODAY in order to help them build better software, faster.

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It’s almost as though these things just work better, who’d have thought it 🤔

The irony is that dev teams who work in ways that appear to get the best results from LLMs - small steps, prompting with tests, rapid feedback loops, continuous testing, code review and integration, and good separation of concerns - have little need for the tools.

YouTube video by Modern Software Engineering My BIGGEST REGRETS From A 40 Year Software Engineering Career

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A somewhat reflective episode from me this week.

Sharing my biggest lessons and regrets from a 40 year career in software engineering. Some personal, some general to our industry. But tune-in, and join in on the discourse in the comments!

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Tomorrow's video is on my biggest regrets across my 40-year software engineering career. It includes general regrets, as well as more personal ones.

It's led me to wonder, what are some of YOUR regrets from your time as a software engineer?

YouTube video by Equal Experts Dave Farley at G[=]K25: Vibe Coding - Is this really the best we can do? The future of programming

Very interesting presentation by @davefarley77.bsky.social on using AI professionally in software construction. I particularly enjoyed the differentiation between coders, software developers, and software engineers.

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