The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Estimating systems with napkin math (Interview)
11 Sep 2020
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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