Remove 2004 Remove Software Engineering Remove System Design
article thumbnail

Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.

article thumbnail

Friction

LeanEssays

Amazon built its cloud with the same philosophy – they knew that at the scale they intended to pursue, everything would fail sooner rather than later, so automated failure detection and recovery had to be designed into the system.