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Code Quality in Practice

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Summary

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.

Bio

Bryan Helmkamp is the founder and CEO of Code Climate, where he helps software development teams improve their code quality. In New York, he was CTO at Efficiency 2.0, a company focused on using science to help people lower the energy use, and also an engineer at Gilt Groupe. He has presented at conferences and co-authored the book Service Oriented Design with Ruby and also the RSpec Book.

About the conference

Chariot Solutions is a software development consulting firm. We build and integrate the critical software applications that run our clients’ businesses. We are successful because we attract the most talented and collaborative software architects in the region. They are leaders in Java, open source and emerging technologies. We work in small, agile teams. We solve hard problems with a practical approach centered on communication, common sense and continual learning. We believe it is important to give back to our community through shared learning.

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Jul 16, 2016

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