Jessica Brentnall - Stabilising eccentric systems - NewCrafts 2024

NewCrafts 2024 - Organised by Aardling (https://aardling.eu/)

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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.

About Jessica Brentnall:
Jessica is a Distinguished Architect, a four times Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, an international speaker and a mentor. She is also an elected member of the .NET Foundations Board of Directors and Chair of the .NET Foundation Membership Committee. Alongside this, she is also the co-organiser and co-founder of DDD East Midlands Conference, and manages the repositories for this event and a meetup.