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Janne-Matti is an independent systems arcitect and a consultant constantly looking for new problems to solve and complexities to untangle. He's got 16 years of experience in developing heavy duty ERP systems (running large cap companies), platform building, implementation, deployment and customer projects under his belt. With and without Rails.
Tero is an all-rounder in, between, and around the fields of software development and mathematics. He has done academic research (on software evolution), been an enterpreneur and been employed, all this to build better software. He is seasoned in domain languages, Rails and uncool software that runs businesses.
While not programming, Tero is a proud father of two, an amateur musician and a free software, electronic frontier, cycling and parkour enthusiast.
“Reality - the murder of beautiful theory by a gang of ugly facts.”
Developing software is fun. At least until you need to develop something genuinely complicated. We aren’t talking about quantum-brain-rocket-surgery kind of complicated. This is a talk about surviving global-multimodal-logistics-management or government-grade-bureaucracy kind of complicatedness.
“You can always give up.“
However, should you not, how do you survive something like that if you aren’t an ERP consultancy with 10k employees and a legal department that can get you out of any trouble whatsoever?
After this session audience will have a practical checklist to detect features and anomalies of complex systems and strategies how to tackle those.
We recognise being new faces in international technical conferences. We have worked with ERP and other domain-complex systems and built tooling for software development in such environments.
We have been a part (although not really visible one) of Rails community for a long time and received a lot.
This talk contains boatload of war-proven lessons on building complex software. That we feel is something we could contribute back to the awesome community we have.