The Cost of Code with Dylan Beattie

OSWA in co-operation with NDC (Norwegian Developers Conference) is very proud to present Dylan Beattie!

Please make sure to register at the NDC Community Tuesday event page in addition to RSVP-ing here:

https://ndcoslo.com/page/ndc-community-tuesday/

The talk will be held at Oslo Spektrum, the night before NDC kicks off!

The Cost of Code - Dylan Beattie

Coders write code. That's what we do. We write functions and classes and modules — and amazing things happen! With a few keystrokes we can solve complex calculations, find hidden patterns in the data of our everyday lives, and send information flying around the planet at the speed of light.

The world uses our code to book flights, pay taxes, talk to friends and family… and before too long, our code might be driving cars, diagnosing illnesses and convicting criminals. Code runs the world. And when our code goes wrong, the solution is almost always… more code. We ship countless lines of code every day — and, in these days of smartphones and networks and IOT, a single line of code could be running on millions of devices within minutes of us deploying to production. But have you ever stopped to consider the real cost of those lines of code? That code you write today could end up running in production for years, maybe decades. It'll become one small part of a giant global codebase that's using literally trillions of processor cycles and hundreds of billions of kilowatt-hours of electricity every year. A codebase that's hiding countless vulnerabilities, flaws and dependencies. A codebase that's driving users to buy millions of new laptops and smartphones and tablets every year because the old ones are too slow, or won't run the latest apps. A codebase that is literally changing the world we live in — and not always for the better.

In this talk, Dylan Beattie will take a fresh look at the cost of the code we're shipping every day. What's the real cost of code — to our organisations, to our society, to our environment? How can we help our teams and users understand that cost? And what can we do to reduce it?

Speaker's bio:

Dylan wrote his first web page in 1992 and never looked back. He's been building data-driven web applications since the late 1990s, and has worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He's the CTO at Skills Matter in London, he's a Microsoft MVP, and he's a regular speaker at conferences and user groups, where he's spoken about topics from continuous delivery and Conway's Law to the history of the web, federated authentication and hypermedia APIs. When he's not wrangling code, Dylan plays guitar and writes songs about code. He's online at www.dylanbeattie.net and on Twitter as @dylanbeattie.