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Improve Your Creativity, Effectiveness, and Ultimately, Your Code

In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their colleagues.

Writing for programmers, managers, and technical leads at all levels of experience, Farley illuminates durable principles at the heart of effective software development. He distills the discipline into two core exercises: learning and exploration and managing complexity. For each, he defines principles that can help you improve everything from your mindset to the quality of your code, and describes approaches proven to promote success.

Farley's ideas and techniques cohere into a unified, scientific, and foundational approach to solving practical software development problems within realistic economic constraints. This general, durable, and pervasive approach to software engineering can help you solve problems you haven't encountered yet, using today's technologies and tomorrow's. It offers you deeper insight into what you do every day, helping you create better software, faster, with more pleasure and personal fulfillment.

Clarify what you're trying to accomplish
Choose your tools based on sensible criteria
Organize work and systems to facilitate continuing incremental progress
Evaluate your progress toward thriving systems, not just more "legacy code"
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Stay in control as systems grow more complex
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" Modern Software Engineering gets it right and describes the ways skilled practitioners actually engineer software today. The techniques Farley presents are not rigid, prescriptive, or linear, but they are disciplined in exactly the ways software requires: empirical, iterative, feedback-driven, economical, and focused on running code."
-- Glenn Vanderburg, Director of Engineering at Nubank

"There are lots of books that will tell you how to follow a particular software engineering practice; this book is different. What Dave does here is set out the very essence of what defines software engineering and how that is distinct from simple craft. He explains why and how in order to master software engineering you must become a master of both learning and of managing complexity, how practices that already exist support that, and how to judge other ideas on their software engineering merits. This is a book for anyone serious about treating software development as a true engineering discipline, whether you are just starting out or have been building software for decades."
-- Dave Hounslow, Software Engineer

"These are important topics and it's great to have a compendium that brings them together as one package."
-- Michael Nygard, Author of Release IT, Professional Programmer, and Software Architect

"I've been reading the review copy of Dave Farley's book and it's what we need. It should be required reading for anyone aspiring to be a software engineer or who wants to master the craft. Pragmatic, practical advice on professional engineering. It should be required reading in universities and bootcamps."
-- Bryan Finster, Distinguished Engineer and Value Stream Architect at USAF Platform One

"The title says it all. In this book, Dave Farley shares his wisdom and experience as an outstanding software engineer and leader. The reader is fortunate to see the world of software design through the eyes of a master designer. Modern - It describes the practices tools and technology used today to build working software with a productive cadence.

Modern Software Engineering provides a reader with a clear understanding of the field of software engineering and why it is indeed engineering. Dave explains the essential aspects of software engineering concisely from the perspective of a software engineer. Unlike many books which focus on one right way, he stresses the importance of good judgment, experimentation, and measurement. Many authors discuss the goodness of cohesion, coupling, and separation of concerns but Dave illustrates concepts while discussing the natural tensions between them which are part of the art of software design. His passion and discussion for TDD and perspective on how and why it works, provide fresh motivation as TDD as design practice.

Throughout the book, Dave presents concrete examples of design choices, where creative experimentation, measure, and iterative development are essential. The book presents a series of courteous conversations about software product design and implementation. It is a book that professionals will return to often to reread and think about these important design conversations.

This is an excellent book that belongs on the self of every software engineer be they new or leading a large team."
―Dave Thomas, CEO of Bedarra Corporation

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David Farley, founder and consultant for Continuous Delivery Ltd., has been a programmer, software engineer, and systems architect since the early days of modern computing. He has shaped ground-breaking approaches that have transformed how developers and teams work. With Jez Humble, Farley coauthored the best-seller Continuous Delivery. As Head of Software Development for the London Multi Asset Exchange (LMAX), he built one of the world's fastest financial exchanges. One of the earliest adopters of agile techniques employing iterative development, continuous integration, and high levels of automated testing, he also coauthored the Reactive Manifesto. Dave also runs the popular and highly successful "Continuous Delivery" YouTube channel.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (December 10, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0137314914
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0137314911
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 0.58 x 9.13 inches

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Dave Farley is co-author of the award winning book 'Continuous Delivery' and a contributor to the 'Reactive Manifesto'. He has been having fun with computers for over 30 years. During that period he has worked on most types of software, from firmware, through tinkering with operating systems and device drivers, to writing games, and commercial applications of all shapes and sizes. In recent years Dave has worked in the field of low-latency systems and was a contributor to the Duke award-winning 'LMAX Disruptor', open-source project.

He started working in large scale distributed systems about 25 years ago, doing research into the development of loose-coupled, message-based systems-a forerunner of today's Micro-Service architecture. He has a wide range of experience leading the development of complex software in teams, both large and small, in the UK and USA.

Dave was an early adopter of agile development techniques, employing iterative development, continuous integration and significant levels of automated testing on commercial projects from the early 1990s. He honed his approach to agile development in his four and a half year stint at ThoughtWorks where he was a technical principal working on some of their biggest and most challenging projects.

Dave is currently working as an independent software developer and consultant.

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Larry Christensen

Software Engineering as Engineering

Calificado en Estados Unidos el 27 de diciembre de 2023

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I have always firmly believed that software engineering can and should be approached as, well, an engineering discipline. This book provides strong arguments that validate that belief and provides great practical advice on how to apply design engineering principles to software development. I highly recommend it to anyone involved in producing software, engineers and managers alike.

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Donald McEachren

Excellent book for students in this field.

Calificado en Estados Unidos el 30 de diciembre de 2023

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Passed along to my son who is university student in this subject.

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Hector Diaz

Problemilla con tapa

Calificado en Estados Unidos el 28 de diciembre de 2023

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Todo perfecto con el tiempo de despacho, solo tuve un pequeño inconveniente con el empaque que venia con la tapa doblada, y como es blanda costo bastante hacer que no se notara tanto.

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Jim Speaker

Engineering > Development - nice work, Dave.

Calificado en Estados Unidos el 1 de febrero de 2022

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About 1/2 way through Dave Farley’s book at this point. I had an item in my ready column related to improving the performance of a query that is core to my new product. After reading the chapter on #empiricism and #experimentation I sat down this morning and set up an experiment with code that generated clear measures as a baseline. Then I set about #refactoring and ensuring I wasn’t more than a few undos from green tests. As I progressed I continued to compare my new measures.

After about 2 1/2 - 3 hours of refactoring I had achieved a 15x improvement and the queries are now “fast enough” to please my future customers. I was planning on doing this work anyways, but I think that what I had just read the night before pushed me towards a very disciplined, more scientific approach. I doubt that with a looser approach that I would have achieved that much improvement in such a short time.

I was prepared to #git reset and toss the work. I had no presupposition that it would be successful. It turned out to be completely worthwhile and an improvement to the codebase, to boot.

There is a difference between #development and #engineering.

Thanks, Dave.

#softwareengineering #softwaredevelopment #science #engineering

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Puts engonerrong back into software development!

Calificado en Estados Unidos el 27 de marzo de 2022

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Recently, I finished reading this great book by Dave Farley. It immediately was added to my "zero B.S. readings", along with Team Topologies and a few others. Those books I would take to a desert island if someone asked me to build up a software facility from zero. :)

What I really liked of the book is that it retakes the often discussed concept of software "engineering" and refines it to suit today's needs. I always felt we need an "engineering approach", but after the (gone) CMMI days, the term was always used more as a synonym to development rather than something to describe a professional, disciplined way to produce better software. I feel Dave's book puts back engineering into development, but with a very pragmatic and realistic approach, derived from actual experience.

When reading it, I felt a similar sensation to that I felt when I read Steve McConnell's Code Complete and Rapid Development, many years ago. Though very different books, I think Dave's also has that "handbook" nature. A book that you read once, but come back very often to look for ideas, concepts, etc. I hope Dave does not mind about my comparison.

Thanks Dave!

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M. S.

One of the best books about Software Engineering I have ever read

Calificado en Estados Unidos el 9 de enero de 2023

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This book is not very large, it is little over 200 pages but of pure wisdom, I don't buy many paper copies of software books, but this is one I like to read over and over.

If you have ever worked in software development, you know that it's not easy to build and maintain reliable software systems. What Dave is saying just makes sense, it will help you better organize and focus on what is important. Every chapter has so many great advice that can guide you to become better software engineer.

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Gary

Very repetitive

Calificado en Estados Unidos el 22 de diciembre de 2021

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He says the same things over and over again but in different chapters. Very little code shown. Though anyone can gain some value, it seems to be more for a larger team. I got the big picture but very few practical examples.

I agree with most things he says. It is easy for someone to say what to do. But how to do it? Someone needs to write a book on how to find a job/company that does all those things he suggests.

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Joe Lynch

Building good software is simple -- but not easy.

Calificado en Estados Unidos el 22 de abril de 2023

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When Dave Farley speaks or writes I pay attention. The CD book blew me away in 2010. This book doesn't add many new concepts or ideas to the discussion of what good software engineering looks like. But that's ok. It pulls a lot of apparently disparate things together at various levels of detail and helps you see how they relate to one another. It takes some positions that I don't necessarily agree with but any book worth reading should challenge your thinking. For example, it pushes TDD hard. I'm sorry, but the experience of many (I'd say most) is that (new of modified) tests being accompanied by a change during any checkin is more important than how you achieve that outcome. I tire when people suggest that TDD is the only way to do that. My point here is an illustration of outcome mattering more than mechanism, ironically covered in the last chapter of the book. That said, the book is loaded with sound advice, backed by experience that few people can match. Definitely worth a read.

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Roger

Great material with excelent topics

Calificado en Canadá el 6 de junio de 2022

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I loved this book, from start to end. All topics were well founded with a good amount of good examples. I understand that people expect more practical examples with real scenarios, but as stated by David, the book is not a recipe to achieve quality, but a foundation based on ingredients that are likely to lead your development to success. The examples given were simple, to illustrate and have a starting point to describe an idea. It's not only about coding my fellow friends, it's much more.

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Buchner

It's a great book for peeking in the views of the author on how to write software

Calificado en Alemania el 10 de abril de 2023

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He compares engineering allot with software development. One has an hypothesis and tries to confirm or reject it via tests and experiments on the software stack on hand.
Overall it is a great read.

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Oliver Hall

Essential Reading

Calificado en el Reino Unido el 20 de julio de 2022

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I bought this book for myself after watching Dave Farley's YouTube channel. I've now bought a second copy for the office library and I'm suggesting that everyone in my development team reads it. For me, this is pure gold. Yes, you can get some of the info online - what can't you get online these days? - but this book consolidates many of the crucial principles of software design into a coherent guide to, hopefully, convince more developers that you can set yourself up for good (or at least better!) design and there is a tangible payoff if you do.

If you do what I normally do and read the best, and the worst, reviews for a product before buying, you'll see comments about this book being repetitive, lacking actionable advice and lacking examples.

Are the concepts in this book repeated - sometimes, yes. Ideas like separation of concerns and testability crop up throughout the book. There's a reason for that. The are fundamental to achieving good design (which is where this book is trying to take us) and if that means some of those points need to be hammered home a little bit harder, so be it.

Lacking actionable advice? I don't get this criticism at all. The book is literally a guide on what you should strive to do to make better quality software. Make your designs testable. Achieve that with tools like TDD and CD for fast feedback. In the process you will achieve coherent design, separation of concerns and practice the correct degree of coupling. All of this is actionable - you many need to read more deeply into those concepts to apply them, but that's on the negative reviewer, not the author.

Lacking examples? There isn't a LOT of code, but where it's helpful to illustrate a point more clearly there are examples, and I liked the fact that the author mixes up languages to show that none of this stuff is dependent upon the IDE, OS, or language du jour - these all come and go, but the good practice that this book advocates isn't a "fashionable" thing. It's just "good". My hunch is that this criticism comes from those with little actual experience, looking to be spoon fed the Fred Brooks' magic (silver) bullet. Hard luck guys - developing good quality software takes some effort, and that effort comes in the form of lots of learning, before you've writing your first lines of code.

Having tried to be a better software engineer throughout my career, I've found that things don't always work out first time, or second, or third, but the more you practise good practice, the more effective it becomes. This book has reinforced the ideas I'm encouraging in our team and added clarity around areas that I had an intuitive feeling for, but not the experience to back up that feeling.

This is a GREAT book. Buy it, read it, practise the techniques Dave Farley advocates. We all owe that to the profession.

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Ayoub

Bon livre

Calificado en Francia el 30 de diciembre de 2022

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Should be a blog post

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A book of words, waffle, repetition and virtually zero concrete examples to illustrate the points. The underlying concepts are valuable, but are mostly well known already and explained better in other books. It's really frustrating that great engineers seem to make terrible authors.

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