Episode 6: Evaluating New Technologies

The Main Thread

How do you decide whether that shiny new frontend framework or that highly performant, memory-safe backend language is really going to solve your problems? Join our guest Eric Justusson, as we talk about how to leverage quick experiments, tracer bullets, greenfield projects, and hackathons to responsibly evaluate the benefits and costs of onboarding new tech for your team.

Picks & Plugs

• Eric
  • Hacker News
  • Random engineering idioms:
    • Yak Shaving
    • Bike Shedding
    • Spike
    • Rubber Duck Debugging
    • Cargo Culting
    • Others
• Alex
  • Design Patterns, Gang of Four
• Brian Ogilvie
  • Unidragon Puzzles

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Transcript

Episode 6 Transcript