Software engineering with Dave Farley

Thoughtworks Technology Podcast

Thoughtworks

Careers, Business, 907234, Technology

4.7 • 53 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We catch up with Dave Farley to hear about the genesis of his blockbuster book, Continuous Delivery — which he authored with Jez Humble — as well as his latest tome, Modern Software Engineering. He shares his ideas about the art of software development and common misconceptions about the principles of engineering.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast.
0:07.9	Today I am joined by my co-host Neil Ford.
0:11.9	Good morning, Neil.
0:12.8	Good morning, Mike.
0:14.3	And together we are joined by award-winning author, Dave Farley, who has had a long career in technology. Good morning, Dave.
0:25.1	Morning, Mike. Morning Neil. And you might know Dave as the author of the continuous delivery book,
0:32.5	along with Jez Humble, and a whole bunch of other stuff. And what we wanted to do today was talk to Dave
0:40.3	about his career in tech as part of our series of podcasts
0:45.3	interviewing technology industry, luminaries,
0:50.9	and talking about what they've done in their career.
1:00.1	So I thought where we would start actually is at ThoughtWorks because Dave did used to work for ThoughtWorks and that's where I first knew him in the UK.
1:03.7	I'm not sure exactly which year that would have been, Dave.
1:06.9	I joined ThoughtWorks in 2003, so somewhere between 2003, 2010, somewhere then.
1:15.4	You were at Thoughtworks, you were at London.
1:18.1	Yeah, I joined in 2003 as well, and I left in 2007-ish, something like that.
1:28.9	To go and work, yeah, I got lured away by a friend.
1:33.4	But I had a great time in ThoughtWorks and had a lot of fun and learned a lot of things.
1:39.2	Should we talk about continuous delivery?
1:42.9	The book, because I think that's one of the significant early pieces.
1:49.0	You know, when I look at your blog page with all the stuff you've done on it,
1:53.4	the CD book is, I think, has been huge for the industry.
1:56.7	Can you tell us how that came about?
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