Senior Engineers Are Becoming Failure Designers

About this episode

The episode discusses how modern senior engineers are focusing on designing for failure as much as for success.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/senior-engineers-are-becoming-failure-designers . That's the mark of a modern senior engineer: not just writing code that works when everything goes right, but designing resilience into every line Check more stories related to management at: https://hackernoon.com/c/management . You can also check exclusive content about #engineering-leadership , #software-architecture , #systems-design , #senior-engineer , #software-craftmanship , #software-engineers , #engineering , #future-of-engineering , and more. This story was written by: @davidiyanu . Learn more about this writer by checking @davidiyanu's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . Senior developers know that designing for success means designing for failure. The new breed of engineer spends as much time planning how things will fail as how they work.

Topics covered

• engineering leadership
• software architecture
• systems design
• senior engineer
• software craftsmanship

Keywords

• senior engineers
• failure design
• resilience
• software engineering
• engineering management

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