Thursday, February 13, 2025

 

On Bloat

On Bloat

The link below holds the slides from a talk I gave last year for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's annual tech conference. They are mostly self-explanatory, with the possible exception of the "attractive nuisance" slide, for which I explained how a small package with good intentions can accumulate both a large set of dependents and a large set of dependencies, turning it into a vector for bloat and malfeasance.

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