Software Engineering for Products People Love
Like Duolingo, but for Software Engineering for Products People Love. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
63 levels across 8 sections, about 126 minutes end to end, roughly 25 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Shipping Value Fast, Architecture for Growth, The User-Centric Engineer, Reliability and Resilience, Collaborative Engineering, Performance Engineering, Security and Data Integrity, and Scaling and Deployment. It assumes you already know the basics.
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Key ideas in Software Engineering for Products People Love
- A thin slice must be a functional end-to-end path that provides immediate value.
- YAGNI suggests ignoring 'what if' scenarios until they become 'what is' realities.
- A simple 'Thumbs Up/Down' button validates the need before building text reviews.
- Over-engineering for future scale increases current complexity and slows down shipping.
- Slicing vertically through the stack is better than building a perfect database first.
- Building for the current known load allows for faster iteration on features people love.
- Applying the 'Thinnest Slice' approach to a complex feature
- Applying YAGNI to prevent over-engineering for hypothetical scale
- Strategic debt for validation
- Defining the Core Loop
- Speed over elegance
- Thinnest Slice approach
- Complexity budget allocation
- Paying back debt
- Simple secondary features
- Deploying a 'good enough' feature starts the learning process immediately
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Software Engineering for Products People Love the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When applying the YAGNI principle, how should you handle a feature that might be useful in six months?
Get it right to open this lesson and 62 more in the app.
Where Software Engineering for Products People Love takes you
Transition from writing code to building scalable, user-centric systems. Master the architectural patterns, delivery pipelines, and product-thinking required to ship professional-grade software.
- 1
Shipping Value Fast
- The MVP Engineering Mindset
- Feature Flagging and Dark Launches
- 2
Architecture for Growth
- Clean Code and SOLID in Practice
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- 3
The User-Centric Engineer
- Engineering for Accessibility (a11y)
- Telemetry and Observability
- 4
Reliability and Resilience
- Test-Driven Development (TDD) Mastery
- Handling Failure Gracefully
- 5
Collaborative Engineering
- High-Impact Code Reviews
- Managing Technical Debt
- 6
Performance Engineering
- Database Optimization
- Frontend Performance
- 7
Security and Data Integrity
- Secure Coding Practices
- Authentication and Authorization
- 8
Scaling and Deployment
- Caching Strategies
- Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD)
8 sections · 16 units · 63 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Software Engineering for Products People Love is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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