Principles of simplicity
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Rob Pike says, “Simplicity is the art of hiding complexity.” If that’s true, what is simplicity in the context of writing software in Go? Is it even something we should strive for? Can software be too simple? Ian & Kris discuss with return guest sam boyer. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 2 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Changelog News – A podcast+newsletter combo that’s brief, entertaining & always on-point. Subscribe today. Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps and databases close to your users. In minutes you can run your Ruby, Go, Node, Deno, Python, or Elixir app (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. Learn more at fly.io/changelog and check out the speedrun in their docs. Featuring: sam boyer – GitHub, X Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X Kris Brandow – GitHub, X Show Notes: Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek “Simple Made Easy” - Rich Hickey (2011) “You can’t get snakes from chicken eggs” Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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