Panel - What's the Best Way to Improve Software Architectures?
Panel - What's the Best Way to Improve Software Architectures?
Time:
Thursday, 4:15pm - 5:05pm
Abstract:
In this panel we'll pool the minds of the track's speakers to compare the different approaches to keeping software architectures on track.
Originally from Latvia, I recently moved to New York to apply functional programming techniques in building a scalable ecommerce platform. I blog at http://gorodinski.com and tweet @eulerfx.
Duncan is passionate about reactive application (distributed systems) design using tools such as Scala and Akka. As VP of Software Engineering at Viridity Energy, he and his team have helped pioneer this paradigm by bringing online one of the first large scale reactive applications. He maintains the open source project Akka Persistence Mongo and is currently working on a book as co-author, titled Building Reactive Applications with Manning Publications. @ironfish
Michael Feathers is the founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, a
company specializing in software and organization design. Prior to forming
R7K, Michael was the Chief Scientist of Obtiva and a consultant with Object
Mentor International. Over the years, Michael has spent a great deal of time
helping teams after design over time in code bases. Michael is also the author
of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Prentice Hall, 2004).
Eric Evans is the author of "Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in Software." Eric now leads Domain Language, a consulting group which coaches and trains teams applying domain-driven design, helping them to make their development work more productive and more valuable to their business. @ericevans0