Software Architecture for a Digital Age

Featuring Eoin Woods

Software architecture emerged in the 1990s and has been evolving ever since, from a directive, up-front activity, where a single architect created the architecture, which was then implemented by others, to today’s team-based adaptive architectural approaches where architecture is a shared...

Welcome to the Layouts of Tomorrow

Featuring Erin Zimmer

Historically, layout on the web has been quite difficult. We were basically limited to sizing elements either absolutely, or relative to their parent. And the positioning thing was even worse! As developers, we were forced to rely on hacks and third-party tools like Bootstrap to achieve the...

How Frontend Platforms Are Helping Us Evolve realestate.com.au

Featuring Stewart Gleadow

As our realestate.com.au audience has grown, so have the teams that build it. In this talk, I’ll present how we’re building and adopting micro frontends, design systems, and tooling together in our frontend platform products to build web and native experiences at scale. I’ll present the drivers...

The Killer C's: Coupling, Cohesion, and Complexity

Featuring Michael Nygard

The Killer C’s are like cholesterol: there’s the good kind and the bad kind. When the bad kind gets out of control, it can destroy systems and even whole companies. What can we do to lower complexity and harmful coupling? How can we encourage cohesion and healthy coupling? In this talk, Michael...

What No-Code Teaches Us About Building Software

Featuring Katie Bell

As a developer I've been pretty skeptical of this whole ""no-code"" trend. Sure, maybe you can build a static website or a blog using a template builder but if you want to build a real application and you don't want to get boxed in you'll need to write code, right?...

My Awful Ex-Datasystems

Featuring Jeffrey Theobald

We've all experienced heartbreak, spent long nights wallowing away in disappointment, entire weeks ruined by the smallest of mistakes, all the time wondering why on earth you keep trying when nothing seems to change. Data systems. They break your heart. In this session we'll dive into...

The Mindset That Kills Product Thinking

Featuring Jeff Patton

We all know what a product is. We buy and use them all the time. But, what does it mean where you work? Why is there so much resistance to creating great products where you work? This talk focuses on how to recognize the mindset that gets in the way of effective product design and development....

Computing Performance 2021: What's On the Horizon

Featuring Brendan Gregg

The pursuit of faster performance in computing is the driving reason for many new technologies and updates. This talk discusses performance improvements now underway that you will likely be adopting soon, for processors (including 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs), memory (including DDR5 and...

Keynote - Software design: Beyond Boxes and Lines.

Featuring Jessica Kerr

There are many paradigms and movements in software development, always something else to absorb. OO, Functional, Agile, DevOps, Product teams, what’s next? Or: what’s behind them all? Maybe a few core principles can get us the best of these movements, and beyond them.

In this keynote, Jess gets...

Building Adaptive Systems with Wardley Mapping, DDD, and Team Topologies

Featuring Susanne Kaiser

In a world of rapid changes and increasing uncertainties, organizations have to continuously adapt and evolve to remain competitive and excel in the market.

In such a dynamic business landscape organizations need to design for adaptability. Designing for adaptability requires understanding the...