Spolsky: Enterprise code risk should be managed biologically and statistically
Joel Spolsky · a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development · Jan 2, 2019 · at 27:04
Joel Spolsky, co-founder and CEO of Stack Overflow, discusses enterprise code governance and security risk on an a16z panel.
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“At some point, you start to treat the units that you're dealing with as either atomic agents, which is, all right, fine. People are bringing in iPhones. I don't actually know what code is running on those iPhones. Up to almost biological, where you start to think of, like, well, we've got some trees in the building, and every year, some percentage of them get sick, and we have some source code in the building, some of which we brought in from outside, and every year, some percentage of it represents a statistical propensity”
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