Lessons from Working with Experts and Tools

The speakers discuss their experiences with experts and tools, including the importance of continuous integration, abstraction patterns, and separating logic. They reflect on the early days of agile, extreme programming, and DevOps, and mention the influence of popular tools like structure map and Pico container.

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Jeremy Miller started his career as a “real” engineer but wandered into software because that looked like more fun. Since then, Jeremy has worked in and led software development teams in the computer manufacturing industry, finance, insurance, health care, and banking industries. Lately, Jeremy has been focused on leading software architecture teams and helping mentor other software architects. Having had roles both as an in-house software architect and as a software consultant, Jeremy has a great deal of insight into the challenges that confront companies developing and maintaining enterprise systems over time.

Jeremy is well known for his Open-Source Software tools starting with Structure Map and continuing today to Marten and Wolverine. Jeremy is also a frequent author and technical speaker at software conferences. Jeremy recently helped found JasperFx Software to build a sustainable business around the “Critter Stack” tools.

Topics of Discussion:

[6:10] How Jeremy got into open-source development.

[6:50] Being a part of the codebetter.com website in the pre-Twitter days.

[9:30] What most developers should be aware of in the space of getting code to run or multiple instances to run at the same time and having it come out well.

[12:04] What is Marten, and how does it work?

[12:26] TPL Dataflow Library is a hidden gem inside of Microsoft.

[15:25] The two parts of Marten and how they work together.

[17:42] What is a producer-consumer pattern?

[20:05] How to implement a queue pattern.

[24:04] You should probably have some basic understanding of one level underneath you, but Jeremy thinks you don’t want to work on the thread level yourself.

[25:38] Jeremy defines “Critter Stack.”

[29:55] Jeremy’s advice for new developers.

[32:59] Jeremy talks about the type of customers he is looking to collaborate with.

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