Notes

Reads I have enjoyed. Resources I’ve found useful. Or interesting quotes.

• Test-Driven Development (TDD) & Dependency Injection (DI):

  • Uncle Bob’s Bowling Game Kata (PPT, alt.): TDD by example, and in constrast with the “Big Design Up Front” approach.
  • Google Guice’s Motivation wikipage: Dependency Injection using concrete examples.
  • Misko Hevery’s guide to Writing Testable Code (alt.): excellent set of best practices, recipes & examples (& counter-examples) to write well designed and well tested code.

• Distributed Systems:

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann.

• Levelling: Career levels can be thought of as rails going from point A to point B: A --> B

  • At L4 (Software Engineer level), you are given A, -->, and B, and need to drive successfully from A to B.
  • At L5 (Senior Software Engineer level), you are not given -->, and need to decide how to get from A to B in the best possible way.
  • At L6 (Staff Software Engineer level), you are not given --> and B, and additionally need to define where we should be going.
  • At L7 you are given nothing, and you need to create structure for your world, from scratch.