Software and the war against complexity Jon Evans 1:20 PM PST · January 5, 2020 ...

Software complexity within today’s large enterprise infrastructures is frightening. While software innovation has delivered unprecedented value, a lack of discipline and rampant shortcuts have ...

In software, we at least recognize this as a problem. We pay lip service to the glories of erasing code, of simplifying functions, of eliminating side effects and state, of deprecating complex APIs, ...

Microservice architecture complexity Many companies have built large monolithic applications only to find that they get weighed down in complexity. Too many developers working in a single code ...

In software, we at least recognize this as a problem. We pay lip service to the glories of erasing code, of simplifying functions, of eliminating side effects and state, of deprecating complex APIs, ...

Clever software, or clever solutions, may feel worthwhile, and might cause people to pat developers on the back. But ultimately, it’s hard to understand, and can be hard to change later.

The world is an eruptive flux of frequently toxic emergent behavior, and every unexpected event is laced with subtle interconnected nuances. How can we measure complexity? Seth Lloyd of MIT, in a ...

Interestingly, software could be viewed that way as well, interpreting, say, "the Internet" and "browsers" and "operating systems" and "machine learning" as global software systems.

In software, we at least recognize this as a problem. We pay lip service to the glories of erasing code, of simplifying functions, of eliminating side effects and state, of deprecating complex APIs, ...

In software, we at least recognize this as a problem. We pay lip service to the glories of erasing code, of simplifying functions, of eliminating side effects and state, of deprecating complex APIs, ...