The software craftsmanship conference
I had the opportunity to attend the the first Craft Conference in Budapest at the end of April 2014. It was a great conference, well organised, an impressive list of speakers and a interesting list of talks to select from. Video streaming by Ustream If you weren’t able to attend, videos of the talks are available online at the Craft Conference website. Some interesting talks:
- Dan North - Jackstones: the journey to mastery
- Gojko Adzic - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Flexible Scope
- Great talk by Simon Brown: Simon Brown - Agility and the essence of software architecture
- Really interesting talk: Jonas Bonér - Going Reactive: Event-Driven, Scalable, Resilient & Responsive Systems
- Theo Schlossnagle - Responsibly maximizing craftsmanship in software engineering
- Ian Robinson - Graph Search: The Power of Connected Data
- Greg Young - Polyglot Data
- Simon Hildrew (Guardian) Deploying to production live on stage :-) Simon Hildrew - Delivering Continuous Delivery Continuously
Stefan Tilkov - Architecture War Stories: I loved this one :-) Video streaming by Ustream
- Jutta Eckstein - Complex Projects aren’t planable but controllable
- Michael Feathers - Conway’s Law and You: How to Organize your Organization for Optimal Development
- Ben Mathews - Lessons from Facebook’s PHP Codebase
- Eric Evans - Acknowledging CAP at the Root - in the Domain Model
- Jeff Hodges - Distributed Systems in Production
- Dominic Tarr - There is no such thing as a general purpose database
- Theo Schlossnagle - A Career in Web Operations
- Alvaro Videla - Building a Distributed Data Ingestion System with RabbitMQ
- Mitchell Hashimoto - Vagrant, Packer, Consul: Maximum Potency DevOps
All and all it was a great conference.