Python’s ecosystem is held up to a high standard, but it falls short in a few key areas. A handful of crucial APIs are an absolute pain to work with. We’ll go over where these APIs went wrong and learn about strong and elegant API design.
This talk discusses how to manage software architecture complexity. SOA promises scalability, but it is easy to introduce brittleness and overcomplicate an architecture when the right pieces are not introduced. How does a simple application become complex as time passes by? Distributed systems require a different workflow and perspective. What …
In this session, we will discuss the Great Simplification Architecture, instead of creating abstract towers of babel, we will see how we can create agile, maintainable and easy to work with architectures and systems that allow you to just go in and start working, rather than spend a lot of …
Deploying modern applications in the cloud can introduce new challenges like distributing and integrating application components across private and public networks, using heterogeneous messaging systems, driving heavier workloads and horizontally scaling the messaging tier. Learn how to overcome these challenges using proven enterprise integration patterns with AMQP based messaging, Spring …
More and more applications are being written in dynamically typed languages like JavaScript and Ruby. Theoretically, this is progress. But, what happens when they go bad? What are the recovery options. This talk explores methods for making sense of, and recovering large legacy code bases in dynamically type languages. It …
Keavy McMinn is part of the internal tools team at Github. She gives an insight into some of the internal tools used at Github and discusses the importance of building and using software that enables and supports your team, whether onsite or distributed, to be more productive, informed, motivated and …
