Track Overview
Crafting the Developer Experience
Developer experience is everything: the smoothness of our system of work drives our ability to change software. This track explores the present and future of developer experience: How good can it be? and where do we stop?
From this track
Moldable Development by Example
Tuesday Nov 9 / 11:10AM EST
Moldable Development is a way of programming through which we construct custom tools for every development problem. Yes, literally for every problem. We show how this works through concrete examples like reasoning about architecture or browsing an external API. In all these cases we...
Tudor Girba
Software Environmentalist & co-founder of feenk.com
Scaling the North Star of Developer Experience
Tuesday Nov 9 / 12:10PM EST
From starting a business to growing into an organization with thousands of engineers, this talk will delve into the trade-offs on developer experience at different stages of engineering growth.I will talk about learnings from the back-end and product engineering perspective, gained while Netflix...
Phillipa Avery
Engineering Manager - Java Platform @Netflix
Reproducible Development with Containers
Tuesday Nov 9 / 01:10PM EST
Week-long project onboarding? “Works on my machine”? Software version conflicts between projects? Days of catchup after your laptop bites the dust? These concepts are as obsolete as developing without version control. The future is devcontainers: fully-featured, versioned,...
Avdi Grimm
Chief Aeronaut at ShipRise
Panel: The True Bottleneck in Software Engineering - Cognitive Load
Tuesday Nov 9 / 02:10PM EST
In software development, our job is not typing. Our job is making decisions. It is what we type that matters, and what we can glean from the computer's response. The core limitation of our work is how much we can know: how much we can hold in our heads, and how quickly we can learn. This...
Jean Yang
Founder and CEO @AkitaSoftware
Manuel Pais
IT Organizational Consultant & Co-author of the book @TeamTopologies
Arty Starr
Founder, Twilight City, Inc.
Speakers from this track
Tudor Girba
Software Environmentalist & co-founder of feenk.com
Tudor Gîrba is a software environmentalist and CEO of feenk.com where he works with an amazing team to make the inside of systems explainable. Much of the work is embodied in Glamorous Toolkit (gtoolkit.com), a novel environment that enables Moldable Development.
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Phillipa Avery
Engineering Manager - Java Platform @Netflix
Phillipa is an Engineering Manager on the Java Platform Team, which supports all backend service engineering across Netflix.
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Avdi Grimm
Chief Aeronaut at ShipRise
In his 20-year-plus software development career, Avdi Grimm has worked on everything from aerospace embedded systems to enterprise web applications. He’s a consulting pair-programmer, the author of several popular Ruby programming books, and a recipient of the Ruby Hero award for service to...
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Jean Yang
Founder and CEO @AkitaSoftware
Jean Yang is the founder and CEO of Akita Software, an API observability developer tools company. She was previously an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where she led a research group working on techniques for automating software-based security...
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Manuel Pais
IT Organizational Consultant & Co-author of the book @TeamTopologies
Manuel Pais is co-author of Team Topologies: organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. Recognized by TechBeacon as a DevOps thought leader, Manuel is an independent IT organizational consultant and trainer, focused on team interactions, delivery practices and accelerating...
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Arty Starr
Founder, Twilight City, Inc.
Arty is author of Idea Flow, a data-driven approach to measuring the “friction“ in developer experience, and making improvement decisions based on data rather than gut feel. After a 17-year career as a developer, consultant, and CTO specialized in statistical process control and...
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Track Host
Jessica Kerr
Principal Developer Evangelist @honeycombio
Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) is a Principal Developer Evangelist at Honeycomb.io. After twenty years as a developer, she sees software as a significant force in the world. As software engineers, we change reality--including our own, and that's developer experience! Jess lives in St. Louis,...
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