Domain Driven Design, Language and DevOps for Distributed Systems with CircleCI’s Rob Zuber

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We have Rob Zuber, CTO from CircleCI on. A lot of the projects we work on implement CircleCI, so we were super excited to speak to Rob. We talk about his background and how he became part of CircleCI through an acquisition. We also get into one of his favorite topics: language. Particularly the words that are used in projects, and how important they are for workflow. We also discuss “Domain Driven Design,” or the idea that when creating a layer of functionality, to keep it bounded within its domain so other layers don’t creep into it. This was an engineering heavy episode that was a lot of fun. Hope you enjoy this one.

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Topics:

• Rob's background & early time at CircleCI
• Other technical problems they had to deal with
• On his favorite topics: Language
• Concepts he highlighted on his talked, "Words Matter: Ubiquitous Language and Throughput"
• Domain Driven Design
• On developer tools and product development around those tools
• On his blog: Predictions for 2018 from Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI

Books:

Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans Implementing Domain Driven Design by Vaughn Vernon The Lean Startup by Eric Ries Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software by Erich Gamma

Links:

CircleCI: https://circleci.com/ Rob’s twitter: https://twitter.com/z00b Predictions for 2018 from Rob Zuber, CTO at CircleCI: https://circleci.com/blog/predictions-for-2018-from-rob-zuber-cto-at-circleci/ “Words Matter: Ubiquitous Language and Throughput”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4LNezYjLLM What it means to be remote-first vs. remote-friendly - https://circleci.com/blog/what-it-means-to-be-remote-first-vs-remote-friendly/ High performing engineering teams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E3f6v7zHP8 Devops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdxj5O-a58E 10 ways you’re doing devops wrong: https://circleci.com/blog/10-ways-you-re-doing-devops-wrong/