The document discusses the misconceptions surrounding code quality and development practices, particularly in the context of microservices. It emphasizes the challenges of dependencies, the importance of simplicity in services, and the need for effective processes to manage interactions. The content illustrates a shift in perception about what constitutes quality in software development.

1. What if everything you knew about
Code Quality is wrong?
Erwin van der Koogh
Principal Consultant
evanderkoogh

2. “What would it take to get
this out to customers?”
COO of a $30B company

4. Let’s rewind 6 months..

5. “What will TV & media consumption
look like 5 years from now?”
Same COO

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8. The Need for Speed
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9. Languages:
Hours doing TDD:
Hours spend pairing:
Code Reviews:
Highest # of indents:
5+
0
0
0
9
# of tests: 0
# of CI builds: 0

10. You no know how to code?!

11. “What would it take to get
this out to customers?”
COO of a $30B company

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14. One does not simply
Put a prototype in production

15. What we thought we build..
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16. What we actually build

17. Huh?

18. Friction Driven Development

19. Huh?

20. Our pain?
Everything changed

21. Our pain?
All the time..

23. ‘Immutable’ Microservices

24. Huh?

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Microservices
all the way
down..

30. Smooth Dependencies

31. Huh?

32. Dependencies are evil

33. You don’t import, but adopt
dependencies

35. Take Aways

36. Microservices
• Do one thing well
• (And that is still not one thing)
• Pretty doesn’t matter when it is done
• A Module (Group of services) has it own DB
• A new version of a service is a new service

37. Dependencies
• Just don’t do it
• Limit your exposure.
• Most dependencies are implicit
• Complexity is not in the components, but
the interactions