The Data Model Matters

About this episode

The episode discusses the evolution of software practices and the importance of modern programming methodologies.

I ran across a statement that seems exciting to me as someone that has written a lot of code in their career. It said: "Many of the "modern" software practices of the last decade were early adaptations to this shift, even if we didn't articulate them that way. Immutable infrastructure. Stateless services. Containers. Blue-green deployments. Infrastructure as code. These ideas all share a common premise: never fix a running thing. Replace it." These are a few sentences in this piece on the death and rebirth of programming . That's how a lot of software developers have viewed the world during the last decade and we've seen a lot of software advances in that time. The very successful developers and teams, who often speak at conferences and publish papers have adopted many of these practices. Serverless, containers, lots of tests allowing continuous deployment of new objects into complex environments that scale to levels many of us never thought possible. These are the very high performances talked about in the State of DevOps report every year. Read the rest of The Data Model Matters

People in this episode

Host: Steve Jones

Topics covered

• software development
• modern practices
• programming
• DevOps
• infrastructure
• containers

Keywords

• immutable infrastructure
• stateless services
• containers
• blue-green deployments
• infrastructure as code
• continuous deployment
• high performance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: State of DevOps

Books & works: The Data Model Matters

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