For Agility's Sake

Refactoring Code You Don't Understand - Llewellyn Falco

Kyle Spitzley / Llewellyn Falco Season 1 Episode 10

DevOps Coach Llewellyn Falco talks about improving code you don't understand, among other technical topics. Llewellyn is known for his unique coaching style, working with teams for 2 weeks at a time and getting into the technical details with them, creating a sense of safety that allows the team to practice new techniques with low risk. Given Llewellyn's area of expertise, this episode is more technical than others.

This episode briefly touches on:

  • MOB Programming
  • Testing code w/a compiler
  • Code reviews / confidence
  • Refactoring a monolith legacy system
  • Java