Ethnography claims its roots from the field of anthropology. How can a method used for such a seemingly exotic purpose be useful in the modern world of software design? Revealing and most importantly understanding user needs requires sensitivity, empathy, and a disciplined approach – all of which can be found …
Modularizing an existing library or application, or creating new modules from scratch, can raise many difficult and subtle design issues. This session will present a set of principles for modular development, with examples taken from the JDK itself.
Everybody says “legacy” code or “inherited” code. This presentation shows you why the meaning that this word carries can discourage you from doing your work well. The presenter uses linguistic, dictionaries, logic, psychology and back his claim with experiments and studies done so far. When folks say “inherited” or “legacy” …
Service Fabric is a Microsoft tool that lets developers focus on building features that add business value to their application, without the overhead of designing and writing additional code to deal with issues of reliability, scalability, or latency in the underlying infrastructure. In this video, Boris Scholl provides an introduction …
In the international bestseller Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman explains how we, as human beings, think and reason and, perhaps surprisingly, how our thought processes are often fundamentally flawed and biased. This session explores the ideas presented in the book in the context of professional software development.
Is DevOps in a large company even possible? This presentation examines some of the technical and cultural barriers to DevOps in large companies, how technologies like PaaS, microservices, and Docker fit in, and what you, as a developer, can do to change things.
