Thursday
Room 1
17:40 - 18:40
(UTC+01)
Talk (60 min)
How Simple Is "As Simple As Possible"?
Software engineering these days is out of control. Microservices and micro-frontends, modular monoliths, HTTP or gRPC APIs, messaging, event-driven, event-sourced... is it any wonder that projects run into trouble before they've even shipped anything?
A good response to this is to say "we should keep things as simple as possible." But how simple is that? In this talk we'll look at some patterns, processes, tools and services; ask whether we NEED them; and if we do, find the simplest possible solution. We'll look at abstractions and where they do and don't belong. And you will learn how to say "we don't need that," or at least "we don't need that yet."
Emmz Rendle
Rendle is the CTO of XRAI, on a mission to subtitle and translate real life using AI and mixed reality. When it comes to programming they are obsessed with maximizing performance and minimizing complexity. When it comes to speaking, they combine 40 years experience in tech with skills acquired as a professional stand-up comic in the 90s to deliver entertaining and informative talks at conferences around the world. They recently learned to play bass so they could join tech parody band The LineBreakers and promptly became obsessed with that, too.