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July 7, 2023 30 mins

In this episode, Ben & Chris talk through their lessons learned as software developers, DevOps engineers and engineering leadership over 20+ years of building software. These lessons are things we've learned the hard way and ones we've come to live by at Surton.


  • DRY but not too DRY
  • Least complexity principle
  • Code readability matters
  • In human time – code is read more than executed
  • Don’t drink the zealot’s Koolaid
  • Don’t solve problems that don’t exist
  • Analysis Paralysis


Intro and Outro music is “Chip’s Folly” by LAZY SALON and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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