Do not walk away from Complexity, Run - Venkat Subramaniam

We constantly hear that change should be affordable and cost effective. True, but, in reality, that's easily said than done. Complexity makes change hard. We can't shy away from the hard problems posed by domains and business needs. So, how can we solve complicated problems without getting dragged into the quagmire of what appears to be an inevitable complexity? In this keynote, an award winning author and software practitioner will share experiences and observations from working on multiple software projects, about what leads to complexities, the traps developers and organizations fall into, and what we can do to effectively deal with these common, recurring issues we see across domains and products.

[@nitinagrawal6637]

Resume Driven Development - what a right explosive thought about the current truth. I also observe the same, as people don't care if certain framework adds a value to the project but they want to use it either they want to work on that to add it on their resume or they know it & it is there in their resume. So if one observes the timeline of such people honestly, they wouldn't have worked anything in their projects, except making the mess & then jump to other company.

[@rarknoefi7545]

You're really becoming one of my top 5 lecturers, even is this talk I excessively made notes

[@sriganeshnagaraj9626]

who are the other 4? :-)

[@avielkharrat5788]

Venkat, as always, your talk is useful, funny, thoughtful, deep... And human. I really hope i'll make good use of it, i have to deal with what you are talking about on a daily basis !

[@Biedroneq]

Venkat is the best!

[@andersjuul8310]

+1 just for the title :) inspiring and to the point. "XML is like humans", "Frustrating code", "Rascals!"", "Mutability needs company", "Happiness" -- Funny -- enlighted while laughing out loud. Talk apreciated. Thanks! You are mirroring my views which makes me thing you are very smart!

[@simrandotdev]

After this talk every task is taking me 15 minutes to do.

[@nagamohank2244]

This talk is really awesome and enlighten me on so many pitfalls we keep on do in our software application design and programming. Venkat you're always a great insightful and thoughtful application developer and technical leader, thank you so much for sharing insights of your application development career.

[@andy12829]

This Guy is literally Amazing ❤️❤️

[@Amene08]

Still very much relevant on April 29 2022

[@mahesh_kndpl]

Excellent Venkat. Thanks, Devoxx for sharing video.

[@nO_d3N1AL]

Good to see an experience talk by Venkat. Some very valuable lessons here. Great presentation, had me laughing all the way through!

[@seonwookim9595]

Thank you for the great insigt, you enlightened me

[@enricobahls6895]

Thx from Germany you broad me to Kotlin :-) I always enjoy your talks.

[@Dynamitemedina]

The complexity of the code at my last company was a major factor of why I left

[@kleffy]

I will be honored to meet with you

[@FuzailShaikh]

This is truly awesome

[@LetsBeHuman]

7:30 - actually XML is good in Spring projects ,as you see all bean definitions etc. at one spot. Annotations are cool, but when you wanna search the entire application, each time you have to search in IDE.

[@francoisloriot2674]

problem is not about externalizing configuration, problem is 1) about XML being too verbose and heavy (YAML is a more modern alternative) and 2) the obsession to make EVERYTHING configurable when in practice it's not required

[@DisfigurmentOfUs]

cool

[@EmilNicolaiePerhinschi]

configuration in XML might be from hell but configuration in JSON/YAML is the same as in XML with the added bonus of not having a schema and no validation and no comments :-/

[@Masterrunescapeer]

There is a JSON schema? Lots of JSON libraries had it baked in. The first draft schema was in 2009, we have draft 8 (2019-09) now. Most JSON API don't need a schema though as usually you have auto generated docs from the API.

[@Hakish123]

As insightful as it is entertaining. BAU. Yes Venkat is predictable. :-)

[@vishnuv4813]

what is the editor or IDE you use that produces instant output /results? Can anyone pls let me know if you are aware?

[@oneearthan]

It's something he created for himself. Not available to public.

[@wildwinner2849]

15:28

[@sifeifanren]

it's object-oriented :D

[@armenarz4062]

2022

[@nodetransit4277]

7:28 Nice!

[@harinathtech]

I told them, now management says Im open to client so they stop talking to me only email whatsapp from my team