David Whitney - The Unbearable Weight of Architecture

This month in a preview of his Keynote talk at NDC Oslo we have David Whitney coming to give his talk - The Unbearable Weight of Architecture

Most of modern software design and programming is characterised by tension and trade-offs.

Making the wrong decisions often casts long shadows over a system and dooms it's maintainers to endless toil and strife. This leaves us stuck in a pendulum swing of system design techniques that are reduced to conversations about monoliths and microservices, rather than about the characteristics of the systems we're really building.

In this session, we'll cover techniques for understanding context, designing with trade-offs in mind, and building software that survives inevitable change, in non-controlled environments.

With examples from real-world systems, we will learn language that we can use to talk about design, so that we can design systems with Intentionality that are sympathetic to the humans that need to build them.

Finally, we'll cover the eternal relationship between design, architecture and programming - along with the different aesthetic viewpoints you need to help them coexist and evolve together.

We're hosted by the lovely people at Scott Logic for this event, please see details in the pin below, and with our many thanks for their hosting of the event. The pin for the location isn't very good, but the full address is 1 Redcliff St, Redcliffe, Bristol BS1 6NP