WeAreDevelopers LIVE • Oct 20, 2023

Cracking Cholera’s Code: Victorian Insights for Today’s Technologist

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In 1854, acting on flawed cholera theories resulted in disastrous interventions. Discover how validating assumptions prevents your engineering team from building expensive software that merely digitizes broken processes.

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