Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful.

it's defining this laws, theories, principles and patterns that allow to express the driving values throughout the reached final results. Without it, you'll get what AI is today providing: bland and tasteless generic outcomes. The one listed here, well apply to software engineering as well as anything else one aim to create.

Think and plan about it accordingly, before starting your next gig.

TOC

• Introduction
• Laws
  • 90–9–1 Principle (1% Rule)
  • 90–90 Rule
  • Amdahl's Law
  • The Broken Windows Theory
  • Brooks' Law
  • CAP Theorem (Brewer's Theorem)
  • Clarke's three laws
  • Conway's Law
  • Cunningham's Law
  • Dunbar's Number
  • The Dunning-Kruger Effect
  • Fitts' Law
  • Gall's Law
  • Goodhart's Law
  • Hanlon's Razor
  • Hick's Law (Hick-Hyman Law)
  • Hofstadter's Law
  • Hutber's Law
  • The Hype Cycle & Amara's Law
  • Hyrum's Law (The Law of Implicit Interfaces)
  • Input-Process-Output (IPO)
  • Kernighan's Law
  • Koomey's Law
  • Linus's Law
  • Metcalfe's Law
  • Moore's Law
  • Murphy's Law / Sod's Law
  • Occam's Razor
  • Parkinson's Law
  • Premature Optimization Effect
  • Putt's Law
  • Reed's Law
  • The Bitter Lesson
  • The Ringelmann Effect
  • The Law of Conservation of Complexity (Tesler's Law)
  • The Law of Demeter
  • The Law of Leaky Abstractions
  • The Law of the Instrument
  • The Law of Triviality
  • The Unix Philosophy
  • The Scout Rule
  • The Spotify Model
  • The Two Pizza Rule
  • Twyman's law
  • Wadler's Law
  • Wheaton's Law
• Principles
  • All Models Are Wrong (George Box's Law)
  • Chesterton's Fence
  • Kerckhoffs's principle
  • The Dead Sea Effect
  • The Dilbert Principle
  • The Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule)
  • The Shirky Principle
  • The Peter Principle
  • The Robustness Principle (Postel's Law)
  • SOLID
  • The Single Responsibility Principle
  • The Open/Closed Principle
  • The Liskov Substitution Principle
  • The Interface Segregation Principle
  • The Dependency Inversion Principle
  • The DRY Principle
  • The KISS principle
  • YAGNI
  • The Fallacies of Distributed Computing
  • The Principle of Least Astonishment
• Reading List
• Online Resources
• PDF eBook
• Podcast