Venkat Subramaniam
Twin Cities Software Symposium
Minneapolis · October 21 - 22, 2016
Founder @ Agile Developer, Inc.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
Presentations
Designing Reactive Systems: Creating Highly Responsive and Resilient Applications
Organizations have moved from making their employees available to having their applications available directly to the users. This changes the magnitude of scale
of interactions the applications have to support. Furthermore, with devices and bots accessing the systems, we’re looking at a complete different rate of response than we once had to aim for.
Towards an Evolutionary Architecture
Big up front design is discouraged in agile development. However, we know that architecture plays a significant part in software systems. Evolving architecture during the development of an application seems to be a risky business.
Core Software Design Principles
Creating code is easy, creating good code takes a lot of time, effort, discipline, and commitment. The code we create are truly the manifestations of our designs. Creating a lightweight design can help make the code more extensible and reusable.
Pragmatics of TDD to Evolve Design
Test Driven Design, we hear is a great way to create lightweight design that is easier to maintain and evolve. Unfortunately, just writing test cases mechanically do not lead to good design. In fact, it may really not lead us anywhere we want to really go!
Twelve Ways to Make Code Suck Less
We all have seen our share of bad code and some really good code as well. What are some of the common anti patterns that seem to be recurring over and over in code that sucks? By learning about these code smells and avoiding them, we can greatly help make our code better.
Testing Functional Style Java 8 code using JUnit 5
Functional programming promotes immutability and using higher-order functions. Functional code is in general easier test, but lambdas and lazy evaluations pose some challenges from the tools point of view. That's where JUnit 5 comes in.
Java 8 Programming Idioms
A number of developers and organizations are beginning to make use of Java 8. With anything that's new, we often learn it the hard way.
Automated Testing with Spock
Automated testing is a much needed practice in our industry. But, it takes discipline and diligence to write tests. Making automated testing fun can greatly help in that direction. Furthermore, creating fluent, expressive, and concise tests can help to maintain the tests in the long run. If you're keenly interested in creating automated tests for your Groovy and Java code, Spock is a great tool for it.
Patterns for Programming in JavaScript
The arguably most pervasive and ubiquitous language is the most misunderstood as well. If you've struggled with and eager to write better JavaScript, come to this presentation to learn about good styles and patterns that can make your next JavaScript code shine. We will start by looking at some ways to make code reusable and reduce errors.