Laws of Software Engineering by Milan Milanovic (.ePUB)+
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Laws of Software Engineering by Milan Milanovic
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Overview: Conway’s Law. Brooks’s Law. Goodhart’s Law. Hyrum’s Law. If you’ve been writing software long enough, you’ve recognized these rules even before you knew their names. If you had an opportunity to see a failed rewrite, or a time that is getting bigger but slower, you hit into these rules.
These patterns have been showing up in software projects for over fifty years. Experienced engineers know them, but they learned them the hard way. These lessons were never in one place, where you could read them. They lived in academic papers from the 1960s, but also in some blog posts that get shared once and forgotten. I also found them in discussions and code reviews.
This book puts all of them in one place. 63+ laws and principles, each with its own chapter, with forewords by Dr. Rebecca Parsons (CTO Emerita at Thoughtworks) and Addy Osmani (Engineering Director at Google Cloud AI).
Each chapter covers where the law came from, how it actually works, what it looks like in the real world, and how it connects to other laws in the book. That last part matters. Some of these principles reinforce each other, and others directly conflict. The ‘Related Laws’ sections throughout the book show you where those connections are. This is important because in practice, engineering is about tradeoffs, not rules.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Tech & Devices
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