Devoxx: Your Code Base as a Crime Scene by Scott Sosna

Your Code Base as a Crime Scene

Imagine your code repository is a Cluedo board: you’ve got lost architecture, inconsistent styles, copy-pasted hacks and dead code everywhere—Colonel Mustard with the candlestick, anyone? Rather than just pointing fingers at the messy result, Scott Sosna urges you to play detective and trace back the journey: was it the midnight-oil engineer misreading Stack Overflow, the over-promising product manager, or a non-technical exec calling the shots?

By dissecting these “who, what, where” triggers, you can not only assign blame but, more importantly, learn how to safeguard your code (and sanity) next time. It’s a fun, informal deep dive into why quality decays—and what actions you, the engineer, can take to keep your code from turning into a mystery no one wants to solve.

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