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Deploy on Friday Test-driven development is a development activity Don’t chase vanity metrics TDD in Eventide: Making the handler do something TDD in Eventide: Getting assertive TDD in Eventide: What makes handlers Handlers and messages Messages? TDD in Eventide: You just instantiate things TDD in Eventide: The folder structure What TDD supplies that test-after does not

Small batches, cheese, and a cooking tip How does quality assurance assure quality? Code coverage cannot guarantee code quality The fundamental flaw in software accounting Don’t fight fires. Clean the forest. Technical debt does not mean doing shoddy work "If we had just had one more review…" Are you a ChatGPT company?

Recording of the idempotence talk What to do when a 3rd-party isn’t idempotent Idempotence at the Utah Stack.js Meetup Avoiding duplicate clam movement during transfers Completing the Reservation Pattern How to not process the same intent more than once How to not process the same message more than once

Concurrency roundup Identifiers aren't for scaling Horizontally scaling consumers with Kubernetes Horizontally scaling consumers with Eventide Horizontally scaling consumers with Message DB Concurrency in Eventide

Too much leadership and not enough management Destroy your company culture with this one weird trick Sunburned face? Nah, that’s just from the facepalm How to tell if your organization is going to make it What melodic death metal can teach you about team dynamics How to take your teams to da moon!

TDD in Eventide: Making the handler do something TDD in Eventide: Getting assertive TDD in Eventide: What makes handlers Handlers and messages Messages? TDD in Eventide: You just instantiate things TDD in Eventide: The folder structure

Change advisory boards are worse than no change approval process When do your developers call a work item "done?" Establishing Flow - UtahJS Conf 2022 Cross-functional packing Request to Receipt

Too much leadership and not enough management You need more than love What melodic death metal can teach you about team dynamics Management gets a bad rap Architecture is a management function

Simple Diagnostic Substitutes with Mimic - Utah Microservices Meetup May 2023 You’ve got all these events. What do you do with them? - Utah Microservices Meetup April 2023 Using Telemetry to improve testing - Utah Microservices Meetup March 2023 Utah Microservices Meetup February 2023 Utah Microservices Meetup January 2023

Meetup recording - 25 May 2023 Meetup reminder: Simple Diagnostic Substitutes with Mimic Simple Diagnostic Substitutes with Mimic - Utah Microservices Meetup May 2023 The snafu was my fault, oh and the meetup recording Mocks mean your code isn’t observable

An actual example of technical debt The guy who coined technical debt tells you what he meant Loans for the way you live The truth about technical debt Technical debt does not mean doing shoddy work

Don’t chase vanity metrics The snafu was my fault, oh and the meetup recording Mocks mean your code isn’t observable Using Telemetry to improve testing - Utah Microservices Meetup March 2023 TDD vs. after-the-fact

Where microservices won’t work How to make every change easy Context is everything: Land Rover vs F1 Racer If the only tool you have is a hammer The myth of organic change

Board game night: Which would you rather have? Why optimize problems that shouldn’t exist? Reducing work-in-process enables you to increase work delivered So you don't want to have meetings When the WIP goes out…

So, your car is stuck in a traffic jam on the freeway The biblical parable of reserve capacity Full capacity = no responsiveness Emergency funds

Auto-incrementing integer IDs stink for distributed systems Completing the Reservation Pattern How to not process the same intent more than once How to not process the same message more than once

“There are a lot of other planets in the universe, and unfortunately they didn’t have you guys.” Waiting on a miracle What’s better than an amazing goalie? Batman the software development manager

Reader question: Are nested hashes in messages bad? Eventide Custom Metadata: Properties vs. Local Properties You pulled a fast one on us! Handling another component's events

Alignment, autonomy, and soccer Autonomy doesn’t mean doing whatever you want Cross-functional packing

Embracing change part 2: Avoid over-engineering Embracing change as a competitive advantage The biggest hubris in software development

Another way to fix gold plating Things change, y’all How would we have time to cook if we’re wasting time cleaning the dishes?

Are we talking problems or solutions? Responses to toddler gates Toddler gates

There are no bad teams, only bad leaders Management gets a bad rap The myth of organic change

You probably don't want heroes Moving clams (?) with events Reader question: Can one command lead to two events?

Embracing change as a competitive advantage When your sprint goal doesn’t take two weeks Goals probably ought to precede work items

When you take away purpose Responses to toddler gates Toddler gates

City permitting isn’t aligned to value streams Software is not your product Request to Receipt

How to not need standups The biggest hubris in software development

Automation can cripple your flow Do things manually before you automate them

Firefighters have a lot of reserve capacity Emergency funds

Slight diversion: Watch the baton and not the runner Why microservices (can) help

Can a single team deliver value? Can a single team deliver value?

Don’t shut your brain off when you code Getting control over your systems (cw: sports analogy incoming)

Conway’s Law gets misquoted a lot, and that could hurt your organization Architecture is a management function

TDD vs. after-the-fact Reader question: Are nested hashes in messages bad?

Preventing errors is better than telling users about them Error code 6

If you had a time machine The Internet's Allergy

The biggest technical impediment to adopting microservices Moving clams (?) with events

Small batches, cheese, and a cooking tip What’s better than an amazing goalie?

Handling another component's events How components collaborate

Destroy your company culture with this one weird trick When you take away purpose

Deliver in small batches, eat in small bites Smaller batches help you have better manners

Huddles vs. standups Global objectives > local objectives: NFL edition

Cross-functional packing When the WIP goes out…

View data generation meetup recording You’ve got all these events. What do you do with them? - Utah Microservices Meetup April 2023

Information radiation with remote work Making work visible: Information radiators