Deprecating Simplicity - Building a New Test Culture • Casey Rosenthal • GOTO 2021

This presentation was recorded at GOTOpia February 2021. #GOTOcon #GOTOpia http://gotopia.eu Casey Rosenthal - Deprecating Simplicity and the Rise of Continuous Verification @caseyrosenthal9467 ABSTRACT When engineering teams take on a new project, they often optimize for performance, availability, or fault tolerance. More experienced teams can optimize for these properties simultaneously. Now add an additional property: feature velocity. Organizations often try to optimize for feature velocity through process improvements and engineering hierarchy, but some optimize for feature velocity through explicit architectural decisions. These decisions increase the complexity of the system. This sounds like a trade-off: you get feature velocity, but for the price of increased complexity. Mental models of architecture can help us understand the tension between these engineering properties. For example, understanding the distinction between accidental complexity and essential complexity can help you decide whether to invest engineering effort into simplifying your stack or expanding the surface area of functional output. Spoiler alert: most businesses prioritize feature [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:32 What is continuous verification? 05:15 Myths of availability 11:29 Dynamic safety model 14:41 Economic pillars of complexity 18:49 Merton quote 19:53 Software engineering = the bureaucratic profession 21:46 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotopia.eu/february-2021/sessions/1707 https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #ChaosEngineering #ContinuousVerification #Verification #CICD #Complexity #Simplicity #Resilience #BuildingResilience #Resiliency #Programming #SRE #Programming #GameDay #DigitalTransformation Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1