# What developers can learn from Soviet space program failures

- URL: https://evilmartians.com/events/what-developers-can-learn-from-soviet-space-program-failures-manhattan
- Date: 2018-07-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Conference: ManhattanJS
- City: Manhattan, New York, United States
- Speakers: Andrey Sitnik
- Event website: http://manhattanjs.com/
- Slides: https://slides.com/ai/space-fails

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The space industry is remarkably similar to software development. Human mistakes, a big project lacking communications, and insane complexity. So there are lots of things that we can learn from its history: not to blame users, but change user interfaces instead; report issues in open source libraries; use linters. Learn about best practices with real space exploration stories as an example.