Beth Long: Maintainable Code Prioritizes How Humans Interact With It

Robby speaks with Beth Long, Software Engineer on the Build & Deploy Tools Engineering team at New Relic. They discuss the origin of the technical debt metaphor, considering when a rewrite is necessary (spoiler alert – it rarely is), and speak about the limitations of agile across modern engineering teams.

Helpful Links

• Beth's website
• Follow Beth on Twitter
• Connect with Beth on LinkedIn
• [Book] Beyond Human Error by David D. Woods
• [Book] Sources of Power by Gary Klein

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