Building For The Future

Update: 2025-09-15

Description

We've all experienced the dreaded rewrite. A system that was promised to last for years has grown so full of technical debt and cruft that we feel we need to throw it out and start over again. How can we avoid this? In this episode, Angelica and Matt are joined by Jon Sabados, where they discuss how to build software that can last long into the future.

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Table of Contents:

Prologue (00:00:00 )
Chapter 1: Why Should We Build For The Future? (00:03:13 )
Chapter 2: Business Value & Future Planning (00:10:18 )
Chapter 3: Where Do You Start? (00:13:21 )
Chapter 4: How To Make Decisions Effectively (00:27:35 )
Chapter 5: Crafting A Solution (00:39:55 )
Chapter 6: What Does It Actually Mean To Build For The Future? [Supporter Only] (00:47:50 )
Chapter 7: A Case Study (00:49:57 )
Chapter 8: Incorporating New Technologies (01:05:07 )
Chapter 9: Building For The Future Outage (01:08:19 )
Chapter 10: Final Advice (01:16:34 )
Appendix UNPOP: Unpopular Opinions (01:20:03 )
Epilogue (01:35:12 )