Jessica Kerr
Principal Developer Evangelist
Honeycomb.io
What we develop matters. And more: the way we develop it matters. It matters for how it changes us. Software lets us form complex systems faster, and adapt them faster, than any human-made material of the past. This means we can learn how to make better systems.
For this, we have to learn how to see those systems. Then we have to practice changing them in small ways, and consciously looking at what happens.
Jess is known for her keynotes, blog, and tweets. She podcasts on Greater than Code and Arrested Devops.
Currently, she spends much of her time building symmathesies through Industrial Logic. She has worked at startups (Atomist, Stripe, Outpace) and enterprises (Ford, Bayer, Sprint). She’s programmed in and spoken at conferences about Java, Scala, Clojure, TypeScript, Ruby, and Elm.
Jess lives in St. Louis, MO with two children who invent worlds and draw characters with superpowers, and two cats who meow and knock over water glasses.
Talks I've Given
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Keynote - Software design: Beyond Boxes and Lines.
Featuring Jessica Kerr
There are many paradigms and movements in software development, always something else to absorb. OO, Functional, Agile, DevOps, Product teams, what’s next? Or: what’s behind them all? Maybe a few core principles can get us the best of these movements, and beyond them.
In this keynote, Jess gets...
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Fast and Simple Deployments for Code & Infra
Featuring Ian Smith and Jessica Kerr
slo chef terraform honeycomb deployment-pipeline
You don’t need Kubernetes to automatically push green builds to production – learn how Honeycomb has utilized CircleCI, Terraform, Chef, a collection of home-grown scripts, and Honeycomb itself to speed up its deployments and make them safer. We’ll talk about what went wrong along the way, and... -
Keynote: The Best of Everything in DDD
Featuring Jessica Kerr
The Domain Driven Design community (and its people) have long espoused the key aspects of other paradigms like functional and object-oriented, agile and devops. In this keynote, Jessica will point out the essences of other paradigms inside DDD, and the crucial part that the rest all miss.
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Grow To Where We’re Going
Featuring Jessica Kerr
As developers, we don't deliver just code. We deliver change in the world.
In software, we want to go fast. We draw a road map, so we can move from here to there. When software is part of a larger system, we want it to go to new places and also support the customers it supports now. Growth is a...people-&-process -
Grow To Where We’re Going
Featuring Jessica Kerr
As developers, we don't deliver just code. We deliver change in the world.
In software, we want to go fast. We draw a road map, so we can move from here to there. When software is part of a larger system, we want it to go to new places and also support the customers it supports now. Growth is a...people-&-process -
Grow To Where We’re Going
Featuring Jessica Kerr
As developers, we don't deliver just code. We deliver change in the world.
In software, we want to go fast. We draw a road map, so we can move from here to there. When software is part of a larger system, we want it to go to new places and also support the customers it supports now. Growth is a...people-&-process -
Grow To Where We’re Going
Featuring Jessica Kerr
As developers, we don't deliver just code. We deliver change in the world.
In software, we want to go fast. We draw a road map, so we can move from here to there. When software is part of a larger system, we want it to go to new places and also support the customers it supports now. Growth is a...software-development -
The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming
Featuring Jessica Kerr
There’s a story to tell, about musicians, artists, philosophers, scientists, and then programmers.
There’s a truth inside it that leads to a new view of work, that sees beauty in the painful complexity that is software development.
Starting from The Journal of the History of Ideas,...
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Shaving the Golden Yak
Featuring Jessica Kerr
Programming is a series of frustrations. Everything we do, we could do better or faster if we only had our tools set up just so. If our error messages were a little better, our code a little cleaner, our tests a lot wider. When we spend time on this, it's known as "yak shaving," and it can get...
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Shaving the Golden Yak
Featuring Jessica Kerr
Programming is a series of frustrations. Everything we do, we could do better or faster if we only had our tools set up just so. If our error messages were a little better, our code a little cleaner, our tests a lot wider. When we spend time on this, it's known as "yak shaving," and it can get...
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The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming
Featuring Jessica Kerr
There’s a story to tell, about musicians, artists, philosophers, scientists, and then programmers.
There’s a truth inside it that leads to a new view of work, that sees beauty in the painful complexity that is software development.
Starting from The Journal of the History of Ideas,...
people-&-process -
Shaving the Golden Yak
Featuring Jessica Kerr
Programming is a series of frustrations. Everything we do, we could do better or faster if we only had our tools set up just so. If our error messages were a little better, our code a little cleaner, our tests a lot wider. When we spend time on this, it's known as "yak shaving," and it can get...
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The Origins of Opera and the Future of Programming
Featuring Jessica Kerr
There’s a story to tell, about musicians, artists, philosophers, scientists, and then programmers.
There’s a truth inside it that leads to a new view of work, that sees beauty in the painful complexity that is software development.
Starting from The Journal of the History of Ideas,...
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Adventures in Elm: Question your Principles
Featuring Jessica Kerr
What do you get when you combine strict functional programming with heavy user interaction?
Challenges, and unexpected freedoms.
Elm is a purely functional language for the browser. It compiles to JavaScript – after enforcing immutability, types, semantic versioning, and tight boundaries...
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Adventures in Elm: Question your Principles
Featuring Jessica Kerr
What do you get when you combine strict functional programming with heavy user interaction?
Challenges, and unexpected freedoms.
Elm is a purely functional language for the browser. It compiles to JavaScript – after enforcing immutability, types, semantic versioning, and tight boundaries...
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Adventures in Elm: Question your Principles
Featuring Jessica Kerr
What do you get when you combine strict functional programming with heavy user interaction?
Challenges, and unexpected freedoms.
Elm is a purely functional language for the browser. It compiles to JavaScript – after enforcing immutability, types, semantic versioning, and tight boundaries...
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Keynote: Scaling Intelligence: moving ideas forward
Featuring Jessica Kerr
Scala is a scalable language. It is scalable in the computer sense, of small programs building into large programs. Does it scale in our mind, as well? There are a lot of ideas expressed in Scala. How do we scale those ideas from conception into full use? For any given idea, one person can't...
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