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Analyzing Codebases for Fun and Profit
Jordan Bragg discusses using entry-points, breadth-first scanning, and operation tagging to demystify the domain, see where to dive deeper, and uncover what technical debt may exist.
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Understanding JIT Optimizations by Decompilation
Chris Seaton shows how they have developed a pseudo-code decompiler for optimized Java code, and how it helps them understand how the Java JIT compiler is working in order to improve their code.
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Panel: the True Bottleneck in Software Engineering - Cognitive Load
The panelists discuss making decisions in software development, postulating that the core limitation is how much we can know: how much we can hold in our heads, and how quickly we can learn.
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Managing Tech Debt in a Microservice Architecture
Glenn Engstrand describes how Optum Digital engineering devised a method for reliably and predictably paying down tech debt for hundreds of microservices.
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Lead with Speed
Courtney Kissler believes in speed for strong results. Tactics covered: outcome-based teams, making all work visible, limiting WIP, understanding velocity and viscosity, and architecture evolution.
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Maintaining Software Quality with Microservices
The panelists discuss what microservices are, why companies are making the transition, how to identify the challenges when planning the move to microservices, and best practices for software quality.
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Leading Organizational Change to Improve Flow Panel
Sarah Wells, Sangeeta Narayanan, and Nick Caldwell discuss how to lead organizational change to improve velocity and quality.
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Dealing with Technical Debt in 2021
The panelists discuss how they identify technical debt, how they make room to invest in paying debt down, and how they approach work to minimize future debt.
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Create Autonomous, Highly Productive Teams By Lowering the Stakes
Jason Lengstorf looks at architectural and organizational strategies to help teams move with less technical debt or maintenance burdens.
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Leading a Journey to Better Quality
Maryam Umar talks about the steps she took to define the term 'bad quality' and how to better discover it as an earlier part of the software delivery process rather than as feedback from the customer.
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Implementing Governance
Dean Latchana discusses collaborative approaches which support teams to deliver value.
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Sorbet: Why and How We Built a Typechecker for Ruby
Dmitry Petrashko talks about Sorbet, a fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby. At Stripe, they used Sorbet to drive code quality via measurable, concrete indicators.