Matt Stine
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · November 27 - 30, 2012
I Enable Early-Career Enterprise Software Engineers to Continuously Improve
My passion is taking a metaphysical approach to software engineering: what is the nature of the collaborative game that we continuously play, and are there better, more contextually-aware ways to play that game?
By day I lead a team tasked with taking a first-principles-centric approach to intentionally enabling programming language usage at the largest bank in the United States.
By night I write and teach my way through a masterclass in software engineering and architecture targeting early-career software engineers working in large-scale enterprise technology organizations.
What is the primary goal?
To win the game. More seriously: to get 1% better every day at providing business value through software.
Who am I?
I'm a 22-year veteran of the enterprise software industry. I've played almost every role I can imagine:
- Software Engineer
- Software Architect
- Technical Lead
- Engineering Manager
- Consultant
- Product Manager
- Field CTO
- Developer Advocate
- Conference Speaker
- Author
- Technical Trainer
- Technical Marketer
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Desktop Support Specialist
I've worked at Fortune 500 companies, a tenacious teal cloud startup, and a not-for-profit children's hospital. I've written a book, and I've hosted a podcast. I've learned a lot along the way, including many things I wish I'd known when I first got started. And so now I want to pass those learnings on to you, especially if you've only just begun your career.
Presentations
Introduction to Google's Closure Tools
Closure Tools represents the open-sourcing of many of the tools used to build many of Google's rich web applications such as Gmail, Docs, Maps and Google +. It's sweet spot is the development of large-scale, feature-rich applications that are deployed within a single page. It attempts to be a comprehensive toolset, providing a robust set of libraries, a strong dependency management system, and a sophisticated compiler. All of these features provide a productive development environment that also results in highly-performant JavaScript code.
Vert.x: This ain't your Dad's Node
Vert.x (http://vertx.io) is a new framework for writing easily scalable applications. It is the marriage of the event-driven, non-blocking I/O programming model popularized by Node.js with the proven performance and concurrency found on the JVM.
Tmux/Vim Workshop (Bring a Laptop!)
A terminal multiplexer and a decades old editor…wow…so what? I'll tell you so what! Have you ever wanted to build your own IDE that suits your development style but didn't have the skills or the time? Are you a polyglot seeking the power of an IDE, but there's simply no one tool that meets all of your needs? Look no further.
Tmux/Vim Workshop (Bring a Laptop!)
A terminal multiplexer and a decades old editor…wow…so what? I'll tell you so what! Have you ever wanted to build your own IDE that suits your development style but didn't have the skills or the time? Are you a polyglot seeking the power of an IDE, but there's simply no one tool that meets all of your needs? Look no further.
Master of Puppet
Puppet is a powerful framework for the automation of tasks typically performed by system administrators as part of software infrastructure provisioning and maintenance. Puppet adoption is rapidly increasing, boasting use by companies such as Google, RedHat, Constant Contact, Zynga, and Shopzilla.
Puppet is composed of three principle components:
- a declarative language for expressing system configuration,
- a client and server for distributing it,
- and a library for realizing the configuration