Software is Made of Fickle Loops

Software is Made of Fickle Loops You can use the lens of iterative loops to look at software development today. We continuously run tests in CI, we regularly update dependencies, our web apps are loops turning HTTP requests into responses, and user input into UI updates and database writes. What makes software development hard is that these loops are fickle: they are prone to failure, delays, and uncertainty. Let’s go through them: Code Loop Steps Fickleness Code compilation is a fickle loop of source code