I’ve been doing a kind of tour with my Beyond the Code: Designing Services That Stand the Test of Time talk. I’ve given it in Oxford, Norwich, Cambridge, London and York*, between February and August this year. I’ve really enjoyed giving it, but what I’ve loved the most is the feedback and the energy (sorry for the cliche) of the audience. In Oxford they ripped my logging examples to shreds. In Cambridge I couldn’t convince anyone of the merits of sharing data - so I reframed it in terms of caching. In Colchester they were convinced that it was fine to return a success indicator in a HTTP response body - this resulted in me writing, Should HTTP Status Codes Reflect Business Outcomes? . And in London someone started arguing after just the second slide, but they, and the rest of the audience, went on to ask rich and engaging questions. In Norwich, my home city, and off the back of me describing what had gone on in Colchester a few weeks before, a couple of different people asked me...