Exploring the fundamentals of software engineering

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

You might think you know software engineering, but what are the really fundamental elements? What are the concepts, ideas and practices that are completely essential? What makes software engineering what it is?

Thoughtworker Nate Schutta and Dan Vega are attempting to address those questions in their upcoming book with O'Reilly, The Fundamentals of Software Engineering. Covering topics ranging from reading code through to the importance of learning to learn, it promises to offer a fresh insight into the skills and knowledge needed to be a successful software engineer.

In this episode of the Thoughtworks Technology Podcast, Nate and Dan join hosts Neal Ford and Ken Mugrage to discuss the book and to dive into what really are the fundamental elements of software engineering. Listen for a fresh perspective on the discipline and a deep dive that shows it's about far more than just writing code.

Learn more about The Fundamentals of Software Engineering: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-software/9781098143220/

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast.
0:11.2	I'm one of your regular host, Neil Ford, and I'm joined today by another of our regular
0:16.5	host, Ken.
0:17.8	Hi, everyone.
0:18.7	Ken McGrach, as Neil said, one of the regular hosts.
0:21.6	And we're here today to talk to a couple of authors of an upcoming book of Fundamentals
0:28.6	of Software Engineering.
0:29.6	I'll let them introduce himself, starting with Nate.
0:32.6	Awesome.
0:33.6	Hi, I'm Nate Schu.
0:34.6	I'm also work with Neil finally now at ThoughtWorks.
0:36.6	Been adjacent for a long time,
0:37.9	but finally on the inside the umbrella now. And my name is Dan Vega. I am a spring developer
0:45.4	advocate at Broadcom. I've been doing the software thing for 23, 24 years. Well, let's not date
0:52.5	ourselves. Let's not get into how much greater we have.
0:55.3	But yeah, I actually used to work with Nate, and that's how we met.
0:59.4	And so the idea for this book came up, and I jumped at the opportunity.
1:04.1	And we'll talk more about it.
1:05.1	Well, at least it's somewhat, I think, due to your tweet, because you sent out a tweet saying,
1:09.2	here's my goals for the year.
1:10.9	And I think one of them was to play golf with me,
1:13.2	if I remember right.
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