To comment your code, or not to comment your code? That is the question. There is a debate in the software development industry as to whether you should, or shouldn't comment your code. Trisha Gee, software engineer & author, gives her take and why she believes that you don't have to comment your…

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOchgo https://gotochgo.com Matt Godbolt - Low-level Latency Geek @MattGodbolt RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/matt.godbolt.org https://xania.org https://github.com/mattgodbolt https://www.linkedin.com/in/godbolt…

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Courtney Nash - Founder of the VOID RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/courtneynash.bsky.social https://twitter.com/courtneynash https://linkedin.com/in/nashcourtney ABSTRACT Automation is ubiquitous—it is…

InfoQ Homepage Presentations Production Comes First - an Outside-In Approach to Building Microservices Architecture & Design QCon London (April 7-11, 2025): Learn the emerging trends. Implement best practices. Bookmarks View Presentation Speed: Download 44:24 Summary Martin Thwaites introduces…

This presentation was recorded at GOTO EDA Day 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOeda http://gotopia.tech Gillian Armstrong - Senior Solutions Architect, Generative AI Solutions at AWS ORIGINAL TALK TITLE Outsmarting the Genie: How to Make Smart Architecture Decisions when Building Gen AI Apps RESOURCES…

This presentation was recorded at GOTO EDA Day Warsaw 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOeda https://gotopia.tech James Eastham - Serverless Developer Advocate at Datadog @serverlessjames RESOURCES https://twitter.com/plantpowerjames https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-eastham https://github.com/jeastham1993…

Software bugs often happen when the internal state of a program is invalid or inaccurate. As programmers our job is to manage state while avoiding these bugs. So how can we avoid invalid state? Well for one we could try to eliminate all state in our programs, but this approach quickly falls apart if…

"Extract Method" is a great way to give names to concepts so code is easier to read and flows. But that can go wrong when you use it creating a lot of indirection and unexpected behavior from the methods your extracting. 🔗 EventStoreDB https://eventsto.re/codeopinion 🔔 Subscribe:…

What should your project structure look like? How should you structure and organize your HTTP APIs? Here's one way by Jono Williams and my thoughts and insights about some misconceptions about Domain Driven Design. 🔗 EventStoreDB https://eventsto.re/codeopinion 🔔 Subscribe:…

DRY Principle is seemingly advocated for or against. In reality, it's not good or bad so as long as you understand why you're applying it and for what purpose. Misunderstanding DRY is why your system can turn into a hard to change rats nest. 🔗 EventStoreDB https://eventsto.re/codeopinion 🔔…

Transcript Quirk: I'm here to talk about architecture reliability, observability as a whole. I'd like to just start you off by thinking about thinking. If you're designing something, if you're working on something, if you're building something, would you rather think about the telephone with its…

Transcript Ghisi: I'm super excited to be introducing you all to my talk, breaking the ceiling. It's about how you grow above staff level and beyond. The first question many of you might have is, why do we have a director of engineering, someone that's not a staff-plus, talking about staff-plus?…

Are junior developers about to become the real victims of the future artificial intelligence influenced world of software development? Senior developers tend to use their experience to know how to navigate the questions raised by these new technologies and have a bigger grasp the importance of human…

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Dunbar's number: Why we can only maintain 150 relationships 9 October 2019 Emmanuel Lafont According to Dunbar’s theory, people can ‘handle’ up to about 150 relationships – whether in early hunter-gatherer societies or the modern workplace (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont) The theory of Dunbar’s number…

Key Takeaways Don’t repeat yourself, or "DRY", is a useful principle to apply to both application code and test code. The misapplication of the DRY technique can make tests hard to understand, maintain, and change. While code duplication may not be so harmful to your tests, allowing duplication of…

We are told that software development is hard. The majority of big projects fail. This should be alarming. What if the majority of surgeries failed? What if they majority of the time that you took your car to the mechanic it died? What if the majority of your trips to a restaurant resulted in food…

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2018. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Avdi Grimm - Head Gardener at Graceful.Dev and recipient of the Ruby Hero Award @AvdiGrimm RESOURCES https://twitter.com/avdi https://linkedin.com/in/avdigrimm https://graceful.dev https://avdi.codes ABSTRACT For beginning…

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Transcript Nash: I'm Courtney Nash. I am here to talk to you about rethinking reliability, what we can and can't learn from incident metrics. I'm an Incident Internet Librarian at Verica. I'm a researcher with a long background at a bunch of different places. I used to study the brain. I think…

Compared with other critical business functions such as sales or customer operations, software development is perennially undermeasured. The long-held belief by many in tech is that it’s not possible to do it correctly—and that, in any case, only trained engineers are knowledgeable enough to assess…

We’re so pleased to having teamed up with Dave Farley, author of “Continuous Delivery” and frequent GOTO Conferences speaker, for a monthly video series featuring ideas about continuous delivery, DevOps, test-driven development, BDD, software engineering and software development in general. Find…

Course Libraries: If you want this course, consider one of these libraries. Core Tech If you have a feeling that traditional object-oriented design is impeding your progress, then this course will teach you how to apply functional modeling and design, so as to improve development speed and…

Transcript Turner: Do you find you have trouble with the APIs in your organization? Do services struggle to interact with each other because their APIs are misunderstood, or they change in breaking ways? Could you point to the definition of an API for a given service, let alone to a catalog of all…

Key Takeaways Only a few companies have an API security policy that includes dedicated API testing and protection Defense-in-Depth is a multi-layered defense that provides different types of protection: boundary defense, observability, and authentication Authentication is the most important and can…