Birgitta Böckeler is a software engineer, consultant and thought leader. In this episode of The Engineering Room, Dave & Birgitta talk about her most recent work involving AI-assisted software delivery. They discuss tough questions regarding the job market for developers, the challenges and potential downsides of AI in software development, while also discussing the positives these new technologies bring, its applications beyond coding, the future of our work alongside artificial intelligence AND MORE.

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Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

Birgitta on Twitter ➡️ https://twitter.com/birgitta410?lang=en

Birgitta's "memos" on Martin Fowler’s site ➡️ https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html

Podcast with Adam Tornhill about refactoring ➡️ https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/podcasts/technology-podcasts/refactoring-with-ai

Three things GenAI will not change about software delivery ➡️ https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/generative-ai/three-things-GenAI-will-not-change-about-software-delivery

AI-assisted coding: Experiences and perspectives ➡️ https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/podcasts/technology-podcasts/ai-assisted-coding-experiences-perspectives

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In this episode, Dave Farley and Niklas Gustavsson, Chief Architect and VP of Engineering at Spotify, discuss the facets of Spotify's software development and operational strategies, discussing the company's unique approach to organising software development, notably through Fleet Management.

Dave and Niklas discuss how to overcome common misconceptions and anti-patterns associated with microservices, and explore the role of Spotify's "Golden Technologies" in standardising technology stacks to reduce fragmentation.

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Niklass on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/protocol7/

🙏The Engineering Room series is SPONSORED BY EQUAL EXPERTS

Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 and NOW as an AUDIOBOOK available on iTunes, Amazon and Audible.

📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines

Trisha Gee joins Dave to talk about developer productivity. What are the keys to creating an environment for software engineers to feel positive and happy while being at their most productive? Can we really measure developer productivity? Let's find out!

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🙏The Engineering Room series is SPONSORED BY EQUAL EXPERTS

Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

📧 JOIN CD MAIL LIST 📧 Keep up to date with the latest discussions, free "How To..." guides, events, online courses and exclusive offers. ➡️ https://bit.ly/MailListCD

📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 and NOW as an AUDIOBOOK available on iTunes, Amazon and Audible.

📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines

What does the future of software development look like? How will AI shape software engineer jobs? In this episode of the Engineering Room podcast, Dave is joined by author, software engineer and well-known thought leader, Eric Evans.

They talk about Eric's background, domain-driven design, artificial intelligence and what the next 10 years look like for the software industry with the emergence of AI.

Eric wrote THE software design book that should be on every software engineer's bookshelf.

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🔗 Eric on Twitter/X ➡️ @ericevans0

🔗 "Learn Design from the Experts" ➡️ https://www.domainlanguage.com

🔗 "Domain Driven Design", by Eric Evans ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WXJ94m

📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 and NOW as an AUDIOBOOK available on iTunes, Amazon and Audible.

📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines

Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

Gregor Hohpe. is a world-class expert on software architecture and the role of the architect, he is a technologist and expert on the topics of large-scale systems and the public Cloud as well as lots of other stuff.

Gregor is currently part of the Serverless team working as an Enterprise Strategist for Amazon at AWS,  Previously he was Technical Director in the Office of the CTO at Google, and before that was Chief SW Architect at Allianz the German Insurance giant. Gregor is an international speaker, author of Several great books, as well as writing on his always thought-provoking blog, “The Architect Elevator”. and he’s just published a new book called “Platform Strategy”.

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Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

🖇 LINKS

🔗 "Architect Elevator Blog" https://architectelevator.com/blog/

🔗 "Architecture as Code" https://architectelevator.com/cloud/i...

📖 "Cloud Strategy", Gregor Hohpe ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cloudstrategy

LINKS:

📖 "Enterprise Integration Patterns", ➡️ Gregor Hohpe https://amzn.to/47r2j56

📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 and NOW as an AUDIOBOOK available on iTunes, Amazon and Audible.

📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA

ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines

Adam Tornhill is an author including of the best selling book, “Your Code as a Crime Scene” as well as multiple other technical books. Adam is a speaker on the international conference circuit.

He's the founder and CTO of CodeScene where he designs tools for code analysis. In this Engineering Room episode, Dave Farley and Adam explore working with and prioritising technical debt, how to identify the most important code to fix, "Red Code", developer productivity, as well as lots of other topics.

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Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

🔗 Your Code as a Crime Scene, 2nd ed: ➡️ https://pragprog.com/titles/atcrime2/...

🔗 Code Red: the business impact of code quality: ➡️ https://codescene.com/hubfs/web_docs/...

🔗 Prioritise technical debt by impact: ➡️ https://codescene.com/blog/prioritize...

🔗 Lehman's Law - "Systems need to adapt and evolve": ➡️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman'...

Seb Rose is a Consultant, coach, trainer, analyst, and developer and an organiser of some of the UK’s best software conferences. His name is closely associated with BDD, he is a contributor to the Cucumber open source project, which is one of the most widely used frameworks for BDD, and has written several books on this, and other software topics, including the “BDD Books” series, “Cucumber for Java” and he has the first chapter in “97 things every programmer should know”. Seb is also a blogger, and a regular conference speaker. He helps to run a charity, via the very excellent cyber-dojo.org site for teach TDD, that helps children to learn to code.

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Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

🔗 Practice TDD & BDD at Cyber-Dojo ➡️ https://cyber-dojo.org/

🔗 Support the Cyber-Dojo ➡️ https://bit.ly/45Yqp78 🔗 SoCraTes UK Un-conference ➡️ https://socratesuk.org/

🔗 Dave's TDD Tutorial, Using Cyber-Dojo ➡️ https://courses.cd.training/courses/t...

🔗 The BDD Books Website ➡️ https://www.bddbooks.com

📖 The BDD Books: Discovery, by Gaspar Nagay & Seb Rose ➡️ https://amzn.to/48tiEYm

📖 The BDD Books: Formulation, by Gaspar Nagay & Seb Rose ➡️ https://amzn.to/3rinhnJ

📖 Cucumber for Java, by Seb Rose, Matt Wyne, Aslak Hellesoy ➡️ https://amzn.to/48pytiY

📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3 and NOW as an AUDIOBOOK available on iTunes, Amazon and Audible.

📖 The original, award-winning "Continuous Delivery" book by Dave Farley and Jez Humble ➡️ https://amzn.to/2WxRYmx

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines

Emily Bache is a consultant & coach who specialises in automated testing and agile methodology. In this episode of the Engineering Room, she sits down with Dave Farley to talk about her software philosophies, test driven development, approval testing AND MORE.

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Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0

Emily's NEW YouTube Channel, show your support and subscribe HERE ➡️    / @emilybache-tech-coach  

The Samman coaching website ➡️ https://sammancoaching.org/

Approval testing tool TextTest ➡️ https://texttest.org/

Approval testing tools Emily works with ➡️ https://approvaltests.com/

Emily on social media Twitter ➡️   / emilybache  

LinkedIn ➡️   / emilybache  

Mastodon ➡️ https://sw-development-is.social/web/...

📖 Dave’s NEW BOOK "Modern Software Engineering" is available as paperback, or kindle here ➡️ https://amzn.to/3DwdwT3

📖 "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" by Dave Farley Paperback ➡️ https://amzn.to/3gIULlA ebook version ➡️ https://leanpub.com/cd-pipelines