None of us actually like waste, but many of us tolerate it. This is a shame, because waste is really really bad.
It makes our software more expensive to develop, and more expensive to run. It contributes to climate change. It means sometimes, people who’d like to use our software, can’t. It slows us down.
In this talk, Holly will present a range of practical waste-reduction techniques, including:
- LightSwitchOps
- Moving computational work to where it hurts least
- Measuring the right thing, instead of measuring the wrong thing (harder than it seems!)
- Performance profiling basics
- Doing less
It makes our software more expensive to develop, and more expensive to run. It contributes to climate change. It means sometimes, people who’d like to use our software, can’t. It slows us down.
In this talk, Holly will present a range of practical waste-reduction techniques, including:
- LightSwitchOps
- Moving computational work to where it hurts least
- Measuring the right thing, instead of measuring the wrong thing (harder than it seems!)
- Performance profiling basics
- Doing less
Holly Cummins
Red Hat
Holly Cummins is a Senior Principal Software Engineer on the Red Hat Quarkus team and a Java Champion. Over her career, Holly has been a full-stack javascript developer, a build architect, a client-facing consultant, a JVM performance engineer, and an innovation leader. Holly has led projects to understand climate risks, count fish, help a blind athlete run ultra-marathons in the desert solo, and invent stories (although not at all the same time). She gets worked up about sustainability, technical empathy, extreme programming, the importance of proper testing, and automating all the things. You can find her at http://hollycummins.com, or follow her on socials at @holly_cummins.