The Feedback-Driven Developer

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  • MEAP began April 2025
  • Last updated July 2025
  • Publication in Early 2026 (estimated)
  • ISBN 9781633435247
  • 300 pages (estimated)
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Korean

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Build habits and processes to deliver quality applications quickly and consistently.

The Feedback-Driven Developer teaches you how to build an efficient and effective development process that’s powered by continuous feedback from tests, clients, and your own assessments.

In The Feedback-Driven Developer you’ll find vital insights on how to:

  • Build efficient and effective iterative development processes
  • Integrate feedback loops into a full stack development workflow
  • Use responses from users and stakeholders to prioritize features and tasks
  • Incorporate feedback into prototyping and experimentation
  • Building the good habits of a good software developer

Reliable and regular feedback is the core of successful software development. In The Feedback-Driven Developer, you'll learn how to establish the kind of development process that helps you eliminate wasted time and ensure what you're delivering is working and reliable.

about the book

The Feedback-Driven Developer distills veteran coder Ashley Davis's 28+ years of experience into a comprehensive approach to creating a rapid, quality-focused development process. This entertaining and personal book introduces dozens of practical techniques for using feedback throughout the dev lifecycle book. You’ll see each idea demonstrated hands-on as you explore a full-stack web application. You'll learn how to plan for change, effectively refactor, set up and automate tests, and ship your software to production.

As you go, you’ll also explore refactoring into desktop and mobile versions of your applications, expanding the reach of your software. Once your software is in production, Ashley reveals how you can ensure it runs reliably with vital techniques for debugging and triaging problems in live systems.

about the reader

For early- and mid-career developers looking to improve the way they build software. Examples in JavaScript and TypeScript.

about the author

Ashley Davis is a software craftsman, technologist, and author with over 28 years of experience in software development, from coding to managing teams to founding companies. He has worked for a range of companies, from the tiniest startups to the largest internationals. Along the way, he has contributed back to the community through his writing and open source coding. Ashley has been contracting with businesses and founding startups for the last 10 years. He is the creator of Data-Forge Notebook and Photosphere.

Ever wonder how the experts manage to develop high quality software at a rapid rate?..... Software development can be slow and difficult. What if you had a superpower to make it faster and easier?..... It's no secret, it's all about feedback, how to get it, and what to do with it. The Feedback Driven Developer does a great job of presenting a solid way of working through the guided development of an example web application.

Tim Cooke, Software Architect, Axial3D

The Feedback Driven Developer is a must read for developers and team leaders. The ideas presented in this book are highly applicable to real world scenarios. The techniques are clear, concise and effective. Adopting the feedback driven philosophy takes practice, so I would encourage readers to keep this book handy to revisit regularly.

Jorge Contreras, Applications Manager, McQuilling Partners
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