Keynote at YOW! December 2021: Software design: Beyond Boxes and Lines – Jessica Kerr – YouTube Slides Latest: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_l6zV8Lg=/ References Domain Driven Design, by Eric Evans (book) Learn Wardley Mapping, by Simon Wardley; documented by Ben Mosier (site) Team Topologies, by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais (book) Grokking Simplicity, by Eric Normand (book) Functional Programming …
This was the closing keynote at the Last Conference, CodeBEAM in SF, March 7-8 2020. Avdi and I did it together (our first joint talk), and the audience laughed and also found insights. Abstract:The journey of a software developer is a climb through abstraction: algorithms, patterns, architecture….How do we keep expanding scope, without losing focus …
(originally titled: “On the Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming”) Blog write-up Abstract There’s a story to tell, about musicians, artists, philosophers, scientists, and then programmers. There’s a truth inside it that leads to a new view of work, that sees beauty in the painful complexity that is software development. Starting from The …
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Blog post: From Puzzles to Products Abstract What does it mean to grow from a new developer to a senior one? What is the difference between programs and software? I started my career solving puzzles in code. Then I added understanding about the business, and about running software in production, and about making that software …