How to Avoid Stepping in a Big Ball of Mud - Matt Hunt [🏫 In-person]

Talk: How to Avoid Stepping in a Big Ball of Mud
Speaker: Matt Hunt
Hosts: GoCompare

What is a big ball of mud?

Clean architecture is more needed than ever before. SOLID principles are the order of the day and with code bases of hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions of lines – it’s never been more important to combat developer turnover and code entropy by building and focusing on good architecture principles. So, what’s the opposite of beautiful clean code architecture?

“A Big Ball of Mud is a haphazardly structured, sprawling, sloppy, duct-tape-and-baling-wire, spaghetti-code jungle. These systems show unmistakable signs of unregulated growth and repeated expedient repair. Information is shared promiscuously among distant elements of the system, often to the point where nearly all the important information becomes global or duplicated.” – Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder

How do you avoid accidentally stepping in a big ball of mud!? Well – All of your questions shall be answered by Matt Hunt on the 19th April at GoCompare, Cardiff.

Matt is both an AWS and Microsoft certified developer who has contracted at some of the biggest .NET contract houses in the country and in his spare time gives great talks on relevant topics occasionally offering surprising controversial takes (especially on SOLID principles)!

His talk “Avoid Stepping in a Big Ball of Mud” has been well received already in several places and may just be what you need to stop your code from looking like a spaghetti junction.

Agenda:
18:30 - Doors open for food and refreshments, a great time to talk and Network
19:00 - Talk starts
20:00 - End

Please note: spaces are limited so please make sure to update your RSVP if you can't make it & we must be offsite no later than 20:30.

We look forward to seeing you!