Maintainable

Robby Russell

Do you feel like you're hitting a wall with your existing software projects? Are you curious to hear how other people are navigating this? You're not alone. On the Maintainable Software Podcast, Robby speaks with seasoned practitioners who have overcome the technical and cultural problems often associated with software development. Our guests will share stories in each episode and outline tangible, real-world approaches to software challenges. In turn, you'll uncover new ways of thinking about how to improve your software project's maintainability.

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Maintainable

Episodes (225)

Mar 31st Russ Olsen: The Hidden Cost of Forgetting Why the Code Looks Like That
Mar 17th Joel Oliveira: Predictability Is a Maintainability Feature
Feb 3rd Lucas Roesler: The Fast Feedback Loop Advantage

Maintainable

Mar 31, 2026
55 minutes
50 MB

Russ Olsen: The Hidden Cost of Forgetting Why the Code Looks Like That Software doesn’t become hard to maintain only because the code is messy. It often becomes hard to maintain because the reasoning behind it disappears. In this episode of Maintainable, Robby Russell talks with Russ Olsen about trade-offs, legacy systems, and why maintainability depends on context more than dogma. Russ brings decades of experience across very different kinds of systems, each with its own definition of what “maintainable” actually means. A central theme is that software must be understandable to the pe...

Maintainable

Russ Olsen: The Hidden Cost of Forgetting Why the Code Looks Like That

Robby Russell

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