A software engineer will make many mistakes on their career journey.  In time, engineers learn to make smaller mistakes, recognize them faster, and build with appropriate guardrails.  The demands of delivering software in a timely and efficient fashion often demands developers carefully optimize tradeoffs to deliver solutions to the problems at hand.

Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs: How to Make Good Programming Decisions is the book by Tomasz Lelek and Jon Skeet.  In this episode, we interview Tomasz about his experiences as a software engineer and sample the advice found in this book.  Listeners interested in a copy can use the special discount code sedlelek35 at manning.com.

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