Korny works for ThoughtWorks as a developer, consultant and compensating optimist. He has been developing mostly in Clojure for the past 2 years, and in a range of lesser languages for a long time before that.
Talks I've Given
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Pragmatic Clojure Performance Testing
Featuring Korny Sietsma
Knuth said it first: ""97% of the time, premature optimisation is the root of all evil"". And it's become a mantra: ""You aren't going to need it - Don't worry about speed - wait until we performance test and then tweak the slow parts"". But...
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Industrial Experiences Transitioning to Functional Programming
Featuring Korny Sietsma
This talk covers 3 different functional programmers’ experiences applying Functional Programming in industrial settings; A product company improving their process and success, a new team with new projects, and a team performing experiments with multiple implementations using FP and non-FP...
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Industrial Experiences Transitioning to Functional Programming
Featuring Korny Sietsma
This talk covers 3 different functional programmers’ experiences applying Functional Programming in industrial settings; A product company improving their process and success, a new team with new projects, and a team performing experiments with multiple implementations using FP and non-FP...
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Industrial Experiences Transitioning to Functional Programming
Featuring Korny Sietsma
This talk covers 3 different functional programmers’ experiences applying Functional Programming in industrial settings; A product company improving their process and success, a new team with new projects, and a team performing experiments with multiple implementations using FP and non-FP...
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Promoting Functional Programming in the Enterprise, A Parallel Development Approach
Featuring Korny Sietsma
Many people recognise the value of Functional Programming, but there are always barriers to getting it adopted in the workplace. In this talk I will cover the approach we took to introduce functional programming at a financial services company.
We ran a 3 week exercise, developing a small part of...
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