This week we look at three chapters from Extreme Programming Explained 2nd Edition by Kent Beck. Chapter 12 Planning: Managing Scope Chapter 13 Testing: Early, Often, and Automated Chapter 14 Designing: The value of time The common thread I se

Manufacturing and Software

Jul 19th, 2021 5m 57s

This week we continue our journey through Extreme Programming Explained 2nd edition by Kent Beck. I'm trying something a little different though. This week I cover chapter 11 The Theory of Constraints, chapter 18 Taylorism and Software, and cha

The Whole XP Team

Jul 12th, 2021 7m 54s

This week we look at Chapter 10, The Whole XP Team from Extreme Programming Explained 2nd Edition by Kent Beck (Amazon). I discuss: Conway's Law and the Inverse Conway Maneuver The roles on an XP Team The two metrics Beck uses to measure the h

Corollary Practices for Extreme Programming

Jul 5th, 2021 6m 7s

This week we look at chapter 9 of Extreme Programming Explained 2nd edition by Kent Beck and reflect on the exercise from chapter 8, Getting Started, that we did live last Thursday on Twitch. After doing the exercise, I recommend the following

Getting Started with Extreme Programming

Jun 28th, 2021 3m 56s

This week we look at chapter 8, Getting Started of Extreme Programing Explained 2nd Edition by Kent Beck (amazon) The beauty of Extreme Programming (XP) is that you can start where ever you are right now. Therefore, it's not necessary to adopt

Practices for Extreme Programming

Jun 21st, 2021 6m 51s

This week we look at the primary practices of Extreme Programming (XP) from chapter 6 Practices and chapter 7 primary Practices of our current book, Extreme Programming Explained 2nd edition by Kent Beck. The 13 primary practices are Sit tog

Principles of Extreme Programming

Jun 14th, 2021 7m 12s

This week we look beyond the 14 principles of Extreme Programming (XP) and how they follow the iterative paradigm of learning instead of the entity paradigm of learning. To continue the conversation about these paradigms and the 14 principles o

The Values of XP

Jun 7th, 2021 7m 9s

Kent Beck lays out five values as the basis for Extreme Programming (XP) Communication Simplicity Feedback Courage Respect These are not the only values that you may need for your needs, but they make up the values for XP. Join the discussion

Values, Principles, and Practices for Extreme Programming

May 31st, 2021 5m 16s

This week we dive into the first 3 chapters of Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck (amazon). While XP is not the software development methodology that everyone is talking about these days, its practices have become pervasive in our indus

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Buzzwords and Actual Application

May 24th, 2021 4m 37s

Next week we start our discussion of Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck (amazon) While there are other methodologies that are more popular for creating software, they are all heavily influenced by XP. Kent Beck is also just an inspiring

Wrapping up SRE

May 3rd, 2021 7m 33s

This is the end of season one of Reading Notes. Next season we'll be looking at Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck. Six takeaways from Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems The 4 Golden Signals of Monitorin

Lessons Learned from Other Industries and Conclusion

Apr 26th, 2021 5m 49s

This week we look at Chapter 33 - Lessons Learned from Other Industries and Chapter 34 - Conclusion Join the free companion discussion at 7 pm Eastern by signing up at bookclub.dev/thursday. We look at 4 themes of SRE across several industries

Communication and Collaboration in SRE and The Evolving SRE Engagement Model

Apr 19th, 2021 9m 46s

This week we look at Chapter 31 - Communication and Collaboration in SRE and Chapter 32 - The Evolving SRE Engagement Model. Join the free companion discussion by going to bookclub.dev/thursday. Production Meeting Agenda Upcoming production c

Dealing with Interrupts and mbedding an SRE to Recover from Operational Overload

Apr 12th, 2021 7m 18s

This week we look at Chapter 29 - Dealing with Interrupts and Chapter 30 - Embedding an SRE to Recover from Operational Overload. We are almost at the end of Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems and that means it's t

Reliable Product Launches at Scale and Accelerating SREs to On-Call and Beyond

Apr 5th, 2021 7m 50s

We are almost at the end of Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems and that means it's time to pick a new book. Please send your suggestions to [email protected]. This week we are discussing Chapter 27 - Reliable Prod

Data Processing Pipelines and Data Integrity

Mar 29th, 2021 8m 14s

We look at Chapter 25 - Data Processing Pipelines and Chapter 26 - Data Integrity: What You Read Is What You Wrote. Join the companion discussion Thursdays from 7-9 PM Eastern by signing up at bookclub.dev/thursdays. System prevalence Prevayler

Managing Critical State and Distributed Periodic Scheduling with Cron

Mar 22nd, 2021 7m 4s

Sign up for the Thursday night companion discussions at bookclub.dev/thursdays. Discussions go from 7-9 pm Eastern. This week we look at chapter 23 Managing Critical State: Distributed Consensus for Reliability and chapter 24 Distributed Period

Handling Overload and Addressing Cascading Failures

Mar 15th, 2021 5m 34s

This week we look at chapter 21 Handling Overload and chapter 22 Addressing Cascading Failures of Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems. Sign up for the free companion discussion at bookclub.dev/thursdays. The discuss

Load Balancing at the Frontend and Load Balancing in the Datacenter

Mar 8th, 2021 10m 48s

This week we look at chapter 19 Load Balancing at the Frontend and chapter 20 Load Balancing in the Datacenter. Join the companion discussion Thursday at 7 pm Eastern by signing up at bookclub.dev/thursdays. Resources The Pragmatic Progra

Testing for Reliablity and Software Engineering in SRE

Mar 1st, 2021 16m 52s

Join the free companion discussions Thursday night at 7 pm Eastern. Sign up at BookClub.Dev/Thursdays. Share the show BookClub.dev/Reading-Notes. This week we look at chapter 17 Testing for Reliability and chapter 18 Software Engineering in SRE

Postmortem Culture and Tracking Outages

Feb 22nd, 2021 15m 26s

This week we look at Postmortem Culture: Learning from Failure and Tracking Outages. Join the free companion discussion for this episode on Thursday at 7 pm Eastern. Sign up at bookclub.dev/thursdays. Links Appendix D: Example Postmortem Dilber

Emergency Response and Managing Incidents

Feb 15th, 2021 13m 48s

Join the free companion discussions Thursday nights at 7 pm Eastern. Sign up at bookclub.dev/thursdays. This week we look at chapter 13 Emergency Response and chapter 14 Managing Incidents. Incident Command System Resources Best Practices for I

Being On-Call and Effective Troubleshooting

Feb 8th, 2021 20m

This week we look at chapter 11 Being On-Call and chapter 12 Effective Troubleshooting. You can join the companion discussions Thursday at 7 pm Eastern for free by signing up at bookclub.dev/thursdays. If you've found these episodes useful, ple

Simplicity and Practical Alerting

Feb 1st, 2021 14m 31s

This week we look at chapter 9 Simplicity and chapter 10 Practical Alerting from Time-Series Data from Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems. If you've found these episodes useful, please send me an email at hell

The Evolution of Automation at Google and Release Engineering

Jan 25th, 2021 15m 41s

This week we look at The Evolution of Automation at Google and Release Engineering. The companion discussion to this week's episode starts at 7 pm Eastern. You can join by going to bookclub.dev/thursdays. Notes Automation is meta-software,