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Hyrum's Law | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 15, 2026 - With a sufficient number of API users, all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody.
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Linus's Law | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 15, 2026 - Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
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Laws of Software Engineering: The Book | Laws of Software Engineering
A comprehensive guide to 63+ laws and principles that govern software development
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Privacy Policy | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 18, 2026 - How Laws of Software Engineering handles your data and privacy.
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CAP Theorem | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 15, 2026 - A distributed system can guarantee only two of: consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.
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Goodhart's Law | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 18, 2026 - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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Brooks's Law | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 15, 2026 - Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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About Laws of Software Engineering | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 23, 2026 - A curated collection of 63+ laws, principles, and mental models that govern software development, gathered from 50+ years of industry wisdom.
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Murphy's Law / Sod's Law | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 15, 2026 - Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
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Putt's Law | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 15, 2026 - Those who understand technology don't manage it, and those who manage it don't understand it.
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Laws of Software Engineering
A collection of principles and patterns that shape software systems, teams, and decisions.
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YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It) | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 15, 2026 - Don't add functionality until it is necessary.
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Amdahl's Law | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 15, 2026 - The speedup from parallelization is limited by the fraction of work that cannot be parallelized.
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Peter Principle | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 15, 2026 - In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence.
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Gustafson's Law | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 15, 2026 - It is possible to achieve significant speedup in parallel processing by increasing the problem size.
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KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) | Laws of Software Engineering
Apr 15, 2026 - Designs and systems should be as simple as possible.
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