GOTO is a vendor independent international software development conference with more that 90 top speaker and 1300 attendees. The conference cover topics such as .Net, Java, Open Source, Agile, Architecture and Design, Web, Cloud, New Languages and Processes

Presentation: "Hard things made easy - Part 1"

Track: Hard things made easy / Time: Wednesday 10:20 - 11:10 / Location: Rytmisk Sal, Musikhuset

Monads

Sadek Drobi

Monads are interfaces

Bottleneck Analysis

Adrian Cockcroft

It's hard to get served a drink at the bar during a conference. There are many times that you will be staring down the empty neck of your last beer bottle and feeling thirsty while you wait in line. There are some common problems that occur, but how can the conference organizers easily figure out which problem is constraining the throughput of this important function, and optimize quick delivery to thirsty attendees?

Simplicity, The Way of the Unusual Architect

Dan North

Dan North talks about the tendency developers-becoming-architects have to create bigger and more complex systems. Without trying to be simplistic, North argues for simplicity, offering strategies to extract the simple essence from complex situations.

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Adrian Cockcroft, Director of architecture for the Cloud Systems team at Netflix

Adrian Cockcroft

Biography: Adrian Cockcroft

Adrian Cockcroft is the director of architecture for the Cloud Systems team at Netflix. He is focused on availability, resilience, performance, and measurement of the Netflix cloud platform, and has presented at many conferences, including QCon San Francisco, Beijing and Tokyo. Adrian is also well known as the author of several books while a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems: Sun Performance and Tuning; Resource Management; and Capacity Planning for Web Services.

From 2004-2007 he was a founding member of eBay Research Labs. He graduated with a BSc in Applied Physics from The City University, London.  

Twitter: @adrianco

Dan North, Agile Troublemaker, Developer, Originator of BDD

Dan North

Biography: Dan North

Dan North uses his deep technical and organisational knowledge to help CIOs, business and software teams to deliver quickly and successfully. He puts people first and finds simple, pragmatic solutions to business and technical problems, often using lean and agile techniques. He believes most technology problems are really about communication and feedback, which explains his interest in organisational design, systems thinking and how people learn. He has been consulting, coding and coaching for over 20 years, and he occasionally blogs at http://dannorth.net.

Sadek Drobi, CTO of Zenexity

Sadek Drobi

Biography: Sadek Drobi

CTO of Zenexity, Sadek is a software engineer specialized in bridging the gap between the problem domain and the solution domain. As a core Play developer and Play2 co-creator, he works on the design and implementation of the framework.

Twitter: @sadache

Blog: http://sadache.tumblr.com