Stabilising Eccentric Systems

June's edition of Notts Techfast is here! Join us for this month's instalment of Nottingham's 'before work' shot of technology-focussed talks and chat.

This will be a 'hybrid event' - both in-person at BJSS Nottingham's office, and available to join online too. Those who mark themselves as attending will be sent a link to join the webinar closer to the time if you're unable to join us for breakfast personally. It will also be made available via social media posts so make sure you follow us on LinkedIn and X to keep up to date.

About the talk
Jessica Brentnall will be giving us a talk called "Stabilising Eccentric Systems".

"No software system is perfect. At least that fact keeps things interesting and keeps us busy, but what do you do when your system is further away from perfection than you’re comfortable with?

It may be you are dealing with a legacy monolith, a system that has strange logic, no documentation and/or hardly any conventions you can recognise. Everything seems to be on fire and you need to stabilise the situation.

We’ll explore some techniques that are useful when working on systems that need a little love. At a high-level, we will go through approaching testing, monitoring, re-architecting and documenting these systems. We will also go through prioritisation when everything is urgent and the non-technical metrics that can help with buy-in for stabilising your system and team.

This talk is an intermediate level talk. The aim is for you to not only learn how to deal with these situations but want to tackle the challenges they present and be excited about the change you can lead."

Jessica is a Senior Principal Architect at NewDay, and founder and organiser of the DDD East Midlands conference held every 2 years in Nottingham.

Our thanks to BJSS Nottingham for sponsoring Techfast and if you're able to join us in person breakfast items and drinks will be provided to help start your day right. Hope to see you there!