What I've Learned as an Inexperienced Developer

A talk given on what were the key lessons I took from my first years working for a worldwide used app.

Transcript

1. What I’ve Learned As An Inexperienced Developer Building a Worldwide Used App Fábio Carballo @fabiocarballo
6. Lessons Learnt The Hard Way
7. 1. You know nothing (but there is hope)
8. 2. Code Reviews
12. 3. Find a good mentor (and then be a good mentor)
13. 4. Learn to communicate
14. 5. Dwell in the community
15. 6. Be Keen To Learn And Use New Technologies (but be mindful)
16. 7. Use the best tooling for the job and become proficient
17. 8. The user is right most of the times (Unfortunately for you)
20. • Replying to users: + 0.786 • Not replying: + 0.154
22. Increase of 60% on Free Trials
23. Take a deep breath and carry on.
24. 9. Document (the essential)
31. 10. Test Driven Development (or at least test)
32. 11. Decoupled Components
34. 12. Refactor and avoid entropy
36. 13. Use and abuse from staged rollouts
38. 5 Minutes Later • 353 Crashes • 178 Users
39. 14. Improve product with data
42. Questions? @fabiocarballo fabio.carballo@hole19golf.com http://www.hole19golf.com/careers