Estimating systems with napkin math (The Changelog #412)
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English - September 11, 2020 22:15 - 1 hour - 59.1 MB - ★★★★ - 28 ratingsTechnology Education How To changelog open source oss software development developer hacker Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We’re joined by Simon Eskildsen, Principal Engineer at Shopify, talking about how he uses a concept called napkin math where you use first-principle thinking to estimate systems without writing any code. By the end of the show we were estimating pretty much everything using napkin math.
We’re joined by Simon Eskildsen, Principal Engineer at Shopify, talking about how he uses a concept called napkin math where you use first-principle thinking to estimate systems without writing any code. By the end of the show we were estimating pretty much everything using napkin math.
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Featuring
Simon Eskildsen – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub
Notes and Links
Napkin Math on GitHub (PRs welcome)
Napkin Math newsletter
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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!