The Future of Web Programming - Jean Yang
Channel: Elliott Jin
Date: 2021-01-20

Jean drops 🔥 about modern distributed systems vs. biological and chemical systems 🌱,  why web programming today is like medicine in the middle ages 🩸, how developers should demand more of their tooling and experience 🛠.

References / transcript
https://gist.github.com/robot-dreams/58b28f40d8e7baf87eced36cffdfe591

0:00 Intro
0:15 Jean's life story
3:56 Programming models
5:47 Top-down design vs. complex systems
8:34 Methodical programming techniques
10:50 Akita Software's use cases
12:00 API breaking changes
14:08 Using Akita to take snapshots of system behavior
16:41 Definition of API graph
17:44 Specific API example
20:02 Inferring higher-level properties
22:00 "Programming Languages" way of viewing the world
23:11 Watching traffic vs. instrumenting code
24:15 Possible capabilities in 5-10 years
26:57 Why is software quality unsexy?
29:37 Different approaches to software quality
33:00 Closing thoughts
35:31 Finding Jean / Akita Software on the internet