Ken Wronkiewicz
Manager, Software Development Rackspace |
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| Title | My toy project and how I've used Atom and Activity Streams. |
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| Level | Extended talk / Five-In-Five |
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If you start with the end goal that people will want to point automated tools like an RSS reader at a site and work backwards, knowing the end goal of an Atom or RSS feed can be used to drive the design of the whole site. Or can it? I'm going to walk though a few aspects of my long-lived personal-CMS project that I did because doing the rational thing of just using WordPress wasn't fun enough |
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| Title | Soft skills and n tricks I've used to hack teams |
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| Level | Extended talk / Five-In-Five |
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Software is made of people. I'm going to talk about a number of tricks I've used over the years to 'hack' problems of culture and people. I'll talk about the value of group-specific whimsy and why pretty much every project I do from this point forwards needs to have a code-name that's available in beanie-baby form. Also, even though the first rule of Poultry Club is to not talk about Poultry Club, I'll talk about Poultry Club. |
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| Title | QE and Ops for orchestrating services |
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| Level | Extended Talk / Five-In-Five |
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I'm going to cover a few operational and quality engineering lessons I've learned about running stuff in production when you aren't just building an API but an API that calls other APIs. You've heard about Mocks, but what about Mock services or Mock mode services? Centralized logging is cool, but distributed tracing is cooler. And what about the the tower of your dependent services toppling? If you do this right, you can keep a rapid gating build. If you choose poorly, you can have a multi-day unreliable gating build. |
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| Slides | TBA |