This presentation introduces some of the basics of user experience design. It begins by defining the term, then walks through the general process of UX design and all its elements. The talk ends with a few tips for making better design decisions.
One day we woke up and realized that our days are filled with all kind of stuff unrelated to code, that our goals are driven by product owners and that our code design is dictated by architects. A great coding culture gives that power back to the developer, bringing autonomous …
Without rigorous care and attention software quickly becomes messy and unmanageable. Even with the best intentions entropy and complexity are a fact of life in growing applications. In software development as in many other contexts it is easier to tackle the symptoms than the cause. Systems Thinking calls this behavior …
Many open source tools are available for continuous integration (CI). Only a few operate well at large scale. And almost none are built to scale in a distributed environment. Come find out the challenges of implementing CI at scale, and one way to put together open source pieces to quickly …
Netflix’s Justin Becker and Sharma Podila provide new framework developers with a Mesos case study, operating at web scale. Apache Mesos is an open source framework that abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to easily be …
My development career has taken me from AAA games to high performance server programming to front end web applications. Along the way, I’ve learned a lot through following seemingly counter-intuitive advice. I was taught to write tests before my code. This made no sense at first, but gradually it became …
