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Overcomplicated Architecture: Scaling Bottleneck
Cassandra Shum discusses one of the bottlenecks of software development, an overcomplicated architecture, addressing how a company gets to an overcomplicated architecture, and how to get out of it.
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Adventures in Performance: Efficiency Analysis of Large-scale Compute
Thomas Dullien discusses how language design choices impact performance, how Google's monorepo culture and Amazon's two-pizza-team culture impact code efficiency, why statistical variance is an enemy.
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The Engineer/Manager Pendulum
Charity Majors discusses how managers who hands-on code benefit companies as well as individuals, and about how to craft the sociotechnical systems that encourage this kind of career development.
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No Next Next: Fighting Entropy in Your Microservices Architecture
Anna Shipman discusses her experience joining the FT to lead on FT.com a few years after launch and shares things implemented to stop the drift towards an unmaintainable system and another rebuild.
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Panel: Engineering Leadership Lessons for Improving Flow
The panelists discuss how to lead organizational change to improve velocity and quality.
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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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