Adventures in Spacetime - Kevlin Henney

We are happy to announce that Kevlin Henney, an independent consultant, speaker, writer, and trainer, will visit our Stockholm office to hold a session titled "Adventures in Spacetime" for our colleagues and Active Partners. In this session, Kevlin will delve into the complexities developers face with web calls, databases, microservices, and other remote interactions. He will explore the fundamental nature of distributed systems, discussing how these fundamentals limit what is possible and shape everything from user experience to architecture and code details. If you are an Active Partner, you are welcome to join at the office or via Teams.

Developers often find themselves caught in the crossfire of web calls, databases, microservices and other remote interactions. In battling all the infrastructure, platforms, middleware and frameworks their architecture has amassed, plus the legacy of code they may have inherited, they often don't have the chance to take a step back and consider the fundamental nature of distributed systems — fundamentals that limit what is possible and shape everything from the user experience to the breadth of architecture and the detail of code. 

This is not a talk about APIs, SDKs, middleware or specific architectural styles, but a view of the fundamentals from the perspective of history, physics, code and entertainment. This talk takes in causality, clocks, relativity, CAP theorem, the fallacies of distributed computing and more!

Kevlin Henney

Kevlin is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His development interests, contributions and work with companies covers programming, people and practice. He has contributed to open- and closed-source codebases, been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites and has been on far too many committees (it has been said that "a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled"). He is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know. He lives in Bristol and online.

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