August 2019 Meetup

Join us for an evening of fun, great discussions and beer & pizza.

We'll start off with the food and the drinks at 6.30pm.

Talk 1: Software Engineering in 100 Years Time by Dave Farley, Continuous Delivery Ltd

If we were to more clearly define our discipline what would that look like? If “Software Engineering” is real “Engineering” then the principles should be long-lasting, durable and probably unsurprising.

What sort of ideas will be as true of “Software Engineering” in 100 years time as they are today?

What are the foundations on which we could begin to build a true Engineering discipline for our profession?

This talk explores some of those ideas and describes why Continuous Delivery may be the best starting point that we have for that.

Dave Farley is a thought-leader in the field of Continuous Delivery, DevOps and Software Development in general.
He is co-author of the Jolt-award winning book 'Continuous Delivery' a regular conference speaker and blogger and one of the authors of the Reactive Manifesto.

Dave has been having fun with computers for over 30 years has worked on most types of software, from firmware, through tinkering with operating systems and device drivers, to writing games, and commercial applications of all shapes and sizes. He started working in large scale distributed systems more than 25 years ago, doing research into the development of loose-coupled, message-based systems - a forerunner of MicroService architectures.

Dave has a wide range of experience leading the development of complex software in teams, both large and small, in the UK and USA. Dave was an early adopter of agile development techniques, employing iterative development, continuous integration and significant levels of automated testing on commercial projects from the early 1990s.

Dave is the former Head of Software development at LMAX Ltd, home of the OSS Disruptor, a company that are well known for the excellence of their code and the exemplary nature of their development process.

Dave is now an independent software developer and consultant, and founder and director of Continuous Delivery Ltd.

Contact:
Twitter: @davefarley77
Blog: http://www.davefarley.net
Company WebSite: http://www.continuous-delivery.co.uk

Talk 2: Scar, DevOps and Flow by James Lewis, Technical Director at Thoughtworks

Recent research summarised in the book Accelerate points to a set of practices that lead to high software development organisation performance. Simultaneously, research from the Santa Fe institute on Complex Adaptive Systems over the last 20 years seems to point to a grand unified theory of organisational design. So have we cracked it? Do we now have the answer to the question: how do we create and scale high performing software and organisations? In his talk, James explores this research and takes a look at the surprising links between microservices, elephants, London and companies.

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