Context-Based Software Engineering

There's an implied context to your software running in the world and processing data. The problem is that it is usually a reductive and insufficient context to capture the fluency of change that occurs at multiple layers. This need for shared context spreads to API usage which often necessitates fragile, custom development.

In this talk we will address the importance of dynamic context in software systems and how to engender flexible, sufficiently rich context-based systems.

We will cover the history of context-based thinking in the design of software systems and network protocols and how the ideas are merging into something along the lines of “Information DNS” where we resolve things at the time and place of execution into the form in which we need it.

Consider software systems with the technical and financial properties of the Web.

While this is a developing approach to software development, it builds on established ideas and will help provide the basis for next-generation development.

About Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

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