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YAGNI

Matt Swanson
YAGNI
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12 episodes

  • YAGNI

    Programming Books w/ Aaron Francis

    05/12/2023 | 49 mins.
    Matt and Aaron talk about programming books and try to answer the question "do we need them?"
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    Aaron Francis on Twitter // PlanetScale
    Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to
    Aaron's shed
    Aaron reading printed docs on the beach
    SQL Window Functions
    The Pragmatic Programmer
    The Timeless Way of Building
    Culture is Stuck
    Use the Index, Luke!
    MySQL for Developers course
    Why do programmers use books as monitor stands?
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    Redis w/ Nate Berkopec

    28/11/2023 | 42 mins.
    Matt and Nate talk about Redis and try to answer the question "do we need it?"
    This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!
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    Nate Berkopec on Twitter // Speedshop
    Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to
    "Redis is not faster than your database"
    "Your data fits in RAM"
    March of progress
    neo4j
    sidekiq
    ACID
    kredis
    Wafris
    "Running Sidekiq...with a volatile eviction policy"
    Solid Queue
    Solid Cache
    The open source gift exchange
    puma/puma
    The Silver Rule
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    Service Objects w/ Jason Swett

    21/11/2023 | 1 mins.
    Matt and Jason talk about Service Objects and try to answer the question "do we need them?"
    This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!
    Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at
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    Jason Swett on Twitter // Code with Jason
    Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to
    Jason's Snail Mail newsletter
    Brevity is the soul of wit
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    Testing w/ Josh Pigford

    14/11/2023 | 43 mins.
    Matt and Josh talk about automated testing and try to answer the question "do we need them?"
    This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!
    Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at
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    Josh Pigford on Twitter // Detangle
    Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to
    Wittgenstein's Ruler
    Why doesn't Stripe have a /mrr endpoint?
    GitHub Project Paper Cuts
    Baremetrics
    Maybe
    Laser Tweets
    Cedar & Sail
    The best restaurant in the world
    Kim Kardashian - Kimoji app
    Cursor AI Editor
    Stated vs Revealed preferences
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    GraphQL w/ Trevor Turk (Bonus: VCR)

    07/11/2023 | 54 mins.
    Matt and Trevor talk about GraphQL and try to answer the question "do we need it?" (Bonus hot takes on VCR snapshot testing)
    This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches stressing you out? Then you need feature flags!
    Flipper Cloud helps your team deploy the code now and then roll out features when you’re good and ready. Get started for free at
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    Trevor Turk on Twitter // Hello Weather
    Matt Swanson on Twitter // arrows.to

    GraphQL: The Documentary
    GraphiQL
    n+1 problems in GraphQL
    BFF: Backend for Frontend
    Graph Theory
    Schema stitching
    Bonus: VCR
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About YAGNI
You Ain't Gonna Need It, the podcast where we look at software practices and tools and ask: "do we need it?"
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