16: Kent Beck - Tiny Decisions and Emergent Design

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16: Kent Beck - Tiny Decisions and Emergent Design

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In this episode, Adam talks to Kent Beck about Smalltalk vs. Java, low level design vs. big picture architecture, planning for the future vs. emergent design, and applying the principles of Extreme Programming in 2015.

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