InfoQ Homepage Software Craftsmanship Content on InfoQ

Presentations

RSS Feed

Newer Older

Architecture & Design

Adaptive Availability for Quality of Service

Theo Schlossnagle talks about lessons learned in building an always-on distributed time-series database with aggressive quality of service guarantees, and techniques for dealing with bad machines.

Theo Schlossnagle
on Aug 14, 2016

Icon

49:42
Development

Code Quality in Practice

Bryan Helmkamp discusses insights from analyzing over 1T LoC daily, what makes a code metric valuable, when unmaintainable code may be preferable, and what prevents maintaining quality code over time.

Bryan Helmkamp
on Jul 16, 2016

Icon

59:49
Development

An Introduction to Property Based Testing

Aaron Bedra focuses on describing a system as a series of models that can be used to systematically and automatically generate input data and ensure that a code is behaving as expected.

Aaron Bedra
on May 11, 2016

Icon

48:21
Culture & Methods

Creating a Debt-aware Culture

Aaratee Rao discusses some practical and real world examples of how some well-known hyper growth companies accumulated and managed technical debt.

Aaratee Rao
on Apr 30, 2016

Icon

46:43
Development

Reactive Systems: From Drug Development to Functional Programming

Jonathan Graham takes a look at the Reactive Manifesto and Functional Programming from the perspective of the pharmaceutical industry and the quality of the processes used to produce drugs.

Jonathan Graham
on Apr 28, 2016

Icon

41:10
Culture & Methods

Quality Within - The Scrum Way

Owais Zahid talks about establishing quality requirements for products, including quality aspects in the definition of Done, and communicating goals with the development team.

Owais Zahid
on Apr 06, 2016

Icon

14:53
Culture & Methods

Why Building the Right Thing Means Building the Thing Right

Liz Keogh takes a look at why experimentation underpins everything done in technology, and why it is necessary to be able to move and change the right thing.

Liz Keogh
on Mar 20, 2016

Icon

42:36
Culture & Methods

Agile Projects to Agile Organizations: The Journey

Margaret Morgan discusses adopting an Agile mindset which is not only about IT delivery but also to maximize productivity, quality and responsiveness to changing markets and priorities.

Margaret Morgan
on Jan 02, 2016

Icon

37:57
Culture & Methods

Crushed by Technical Debt?

Scott W. Ambler explores disciplined agile strategies to avoid and remove existing technical debt, how to fund the removal of technical debt, and related industry data.

Scott W. Ambler
on Dec 25, 2015

Icon

01:00:46
Architecture & Design

Five Elements of Superior Developer Portals

Hadi Michael explores the elements commonly found on developer portals, and identifies those that consistently contribute to superior developer experiences.

Hadi Michael
on Sep 24, 2015

Icon

22:34
Development

Kill the Mutants - A Better Way to Test Your Tests

Roy van Rijn explains what mutation testing is and how it works, comparing several Java frameworks (PIT, Jester, Jumble) that enable automatic mutation testing in a continuous build.

Roy van Rijn
on Sep 19, 2015

Icon

28:16
Java

Introduction to Java Profiling

Jerry Yoakum discusses how code profiling tools and techniques can be used to evaluate code for constructions and errors that are likely to cause problems, highlight places in need of refactoring.

Jerry Yoakum
on Sep 17, 2015

Icon

43:02