Enjoy the following series of interviews with the speakers, top-notch software crafters from across Europe, joining I T.A.K.E Unconference, Bucharest, 11-12 May. Discover the lessons learned and what drives them to challenge the known path in their field.
Thomas Coopman is an independent software engineer and consultant focused on the full stack: frontend, backend and mostly people, practices and processes. At #itakeunconf, in his hands-on session, the participants will be implementing projections based on an event stream we provide.
#1. Please share with us 5 things you did that helped you grow and become the professional you are today
I draw most of my inspiration from visiting and organizing events in the communities. Additionally, the Software Craftsmanship Slack Team is a great place to start discussing with craftspeople all over the world.
1) Experimenting with different career choices until it felt good
2) Exchanging experiences with fellow professionals by attending meetups, usergroups and conferences
3) Fighting the urge to assume I’m always right
4) Limiting the subjects I’m willing to learn and invest time in
5) Investing in my communication techniques. I’m continuously learning to speak non-techie. I’m practicing speaking in front of an audience.
#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017?
The ability to extract useful knowledge from a store of historical events.
#3. Recommend for the participants 3 sources you find inspiration from and would help them better understand you
1) The Software Craftsmanship and Testing community are awesome. Reach out to them.
2) Listen to any podcast or audiobook during your commute. It’s far better for your personal growth than listening to the (mostly bad) news on the radio. I particularly like these podcasts: Star Talk Radio and Hardcore History.
3) Pick up a musical instrument and learn to play it adequately. I tend to relax with a guitar in my hands or a piano at my fingertips.
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In-Process or Inter-Processes Communication at Deploy Time
Enjoy the following series of interviews with the speakers, top-notch software crafters from across Europe, joining I T.A.K.E Unconference, Bucharest, 11-12 May. Discover the lessons learned and what drives them to challenge the known path in their field.
Florin Coroș, Co-Founder and Partner iQuarc, is a passionate software architect and developer who has been working for more than 10 years in a wide variety of business applications using Microsoft technologies. At #itakeunconf, Florin is sharing more about In-Process or Inter-Processes Communication at Deploy Time.
#1. Please share with us 5 things you did that helped you grow & become the professional you are today
There might be a fortunate series of events, which fit nicely with my personality and abilities.
One of the things that helped me a great deal, was the fact that I changed the contexts and projects often. Even if I worked for the same company and the same technologies for about 10 years, I have changed the projects, the clients and my role at least once in two years. It wasn’t something that I had planned, but I always wanted to learn and experience new things.
Change is always challenging and creates opportunity for learning and for professional growth.
Another important thing for me, I think it was the fact that I always look for professional models. First, I discovered Uncle Bob, then there were Martin Fowler, J.B. Rainsberger, Roy Osherove, Kent Beck, Juval Lowe, Jurgen Appelo, Richard Campbel, and many others (I remember having a slide with some of these guy’s pictures in one of my first talks I’ve given at a conference ☺ ). Reading their books and articles, and then trying to apply their ideas in my day to day work, inspired and helped me.
Attending to training and conferences is another important thing. The TDD workshop with J.B. Rainsberger, which I attended back in 2010 was a few years jump ahead in my career. After, there were many other high-quality training I had the opportunity to attend, like the IDesign Master Class with Richard Campbel, a workshop with Dan North, or a Requirements course with Kay and Tom Gilb.
Coding just to practice is another thing that makes a difference. I learned this at the Code Retreats and I’ve kept this good habit. From time to time I take a few hours and I just write code with the purpose of learning or practicing. It always pays back.
#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017?
In large enterprise applications, there is always the challenge of decomposing the system. From performance considerations we may end up loading all the services in one or two processes, ending up with a monolith, which doesn’t scale and it is costly to maintain. At the other end, we have one process for each service resulting in too many inter-process call hops to handle one user request, which is bad for performance and it may be costly to maintain.
I’ll show a way, which I’ve applied in some projects I’ve architected, on how to separate this communication concern from implementing the business functionality.
#3. Recommend for the participants 3 sources you find inspiration from and would help them better understand you
- My blog of course ☺ onCodeDesign.com . There, it is more about me and my thoughts
- .NET Rocks (https://www.dotnetrocks.com/) is a podcast I recommend especially to .NET developers, and also to any geeks
- As a hobby, I recommend learning and playing GO. Even if it a time-consuming game, it is a very good exercise for the mind.
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Impact Mapping | Patrick Baumgartner
#1. Share with us 5 things from your experience that helped you grow & become the professional you are today
- having a mentor who supports you is great and helps you to challenge your ideas and decisions
- being curious helps you to continuously learn new things
- teaching others helps you to get better on the topic and you learn how to explain things to others
- meeting continuously new people to create new ideas and get inspiration
- having enough rest so that your brain has time for recreation
#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017?
#3. Recommend for the participants 3 sources you find inspiration from and would help them better understand you
- Learn from and with others, by getting involved in local / international practitioners communities. For example, we run in Zurich a monthly Software Craftsmanship Meetup with very diverse topics
- Attend conferences to get inspired by the talks and workshops, as well as the discussions with participants and other speakers.
- Take time for yourself, relax, free your mind and new ideas and thoughts will pop up automatically!
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I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016 – IInd day videos & slides
And…it’s a wrap: 2 days of intense & complex program, almost 300 participants, +30 sessions & +30 speakers. During the 2nd day of the event, 16 speakers from 11 countries shared their knowledge on Microservices, Autotesting & Design, Quality Practices, Architecture & Technical Leadership.
Watch the videos from the event here. Find below the presentations from day 2. The slides from day 1 are here.
Continous Deployment
Andrey Adamovich – Patterns for infrastructure as a code
Tugberk Ugurlu – Zero Downtime Deployment Golden Rules & Docker Changes the Way You Develop and Release Your Scalable Solutions
Thierry de Pauw – Continuous Delivery is more than just Tooling_Its a Culture
Thomas Sundberg – Definition of Done – Working software in production
Autotesting & Design
Thomas Sundberg – How deep are your tests
Franziska Sauerwein – Introduction to Outside in Test Driven Development (London School)
Alexandra Marin – Error-proof your mobile app
Ricardo Mendez – Flexibility Through Immutability
Quality Practices
Houssam Fakih – Never Develop Alone – always with a partner
Andrey Adamovich – Visualising Codebases
Architecture
Milen Dyankov – Microservices and Modularity
Clement Bouillier, Jean Hellou, Florent Pellet & Emilien Pecoul – Workshop around CQRS & Event sourcing
Technical Leadership
Hugo Messer – How to successfully manage remote teams
Flavius Stef – Is management dead
A few thoughts from the participants
- Very glad I attended, well worth the trip from UK
- It was a very well organised event. I really enjoyed it, the speakers have been inspiring and well prepared 🙂
- It was a pleasant learning environment – I hope you will continue to bring high-quality speakers in the event
