Keynote: Scaling, Decentralization, and Utopia
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A software developers you spend a lot of time dealing with mechanism and strategy. You try to scale systems and organizations, and you see advantages to decentralization, so you move toward blockchain technology and evermore decoupled systems. But what do you really know about scaling and the forces that lead to centralization? They are related. In this keynote, Michael Feathers will share with you their connection and what that means for your expectations about systems.
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Keynote: Scaling, Decentralization, and Utopia
Michael C. Feathers
Michael Feathers is founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, which specialise in software and organisation design, and was previously Chief Scientist of Obtiva. He has worked with hundreds of organisations to revitalise their code as well as support in process change and software design. Michael is a powerful voice on the relationship between complex code evolution and output efficiency within organisations.