Build Stuff 2016
2016-11-16..2016-11-18
Vilnius, Lithuania
[Build Stuff 2016, Build Stuff 2017, Build Stuff 2019, Build Stuff 2020, Build Stuff 2021, Build Stuff 2022, Build Stuff 2023, Build Stuff 2024, Build Stuff 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Worse Is Better, for Better or for Worse | Kevlin Henney | 58m |
Revisits Richard Gabriel’s “worse is better” claim that simpler, smaller implementations win by trading completeness for correctness and speed, arguing for… | ||
| Lean Requirements | Bill Cronin | 34m |
Lean requirements means running a cross-functional workshop to get measurable outcomes, personas and a story mapping board, then cutting a prioritized MVP in… | ||
| Work On The Wrong Things First | Amye Scavarda Perrin | 25m |
Argues that starting with messy, low-status work reveals real problems faster: set up continuous integration / continuous delivery even if it feels boring… | ||
| Decisions, Decisions — Dan North on Trade-offs in Software | Daniel Terhorst-North | 01h 06m |
Automated builds and deployments trade speed for locked‑in assumptions — automate only once a manual path is stable — and automated tests catch known failures… | ||
| Around Learning | Alberto Brandolini | 01h 02m |
Argues that the real bottleneck is learning not coding, claiming working code is a side effect so forcing predictability kills breakthrough experiments; shows… | ||
| Scaling Web Operations with Distributed Cluster Schedulers | Diptanu Gon Choudhury | 01h 03m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| 5 must-have patterns for your web-scale Microservices | Ali Kheyrollahi | 52m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| From hard science to baseless opinions: where did we go wrong? | Ali Kheyrollahi | 34m |
Argument that tech debate often lacks evidence and borrows postmodern relativism, illustrated by a computer-vision paper with 40 citations and an ASOS ops… | ||
| Sci-Fi DevOps | Casey Bisson | 01h 01m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| Don't fear the devops. Taming servers infrastructure with Ansible | Michał Ostruszka | 01h 00m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| How shit works: the CPU | Tomer Gabel | 42m |
Generates a 32KB random byte array, then benchmarks iterating and summing positives before and after sorting using JMH and finds the sorted version runs about… | ||
| Hacking a Nginx module | Donatas Mažionis | 41m |
Describes building and testing custom Nginx modules in C compiled into the binary for ad-serving at scale, claiming a production cluster handles 1.75 million… | ||
| Make it faster! | Dan Shappir | 50m |
Wix measures real user performance across 100M sites (50M pageviews/day, 2B HTTP requests) by collecting production metrics (median DNS ~150ms, TTFB for media… | ||
| Conscious Coupling for Anti-fragile Engineers | David Laribee | 50m |
Argues that fragile systems come from modular and social coupling interacting, quantifies instability as efferent dependencies over total, and points to the… | ||
| From Zero to IoT with Elixir and Nerves | Roy Veshovda | 52m |
Build a real IoT device with Elixir. Roy Veshovda goes from an empty project to firmware running on a Raspberry Pi using the Nerves framework — covering the… | ||
| Rise of the Machines - Automate Your Development | Sven Peters | 57m |
A catalog of concrete automations: machine-installed dev environments via Agent Charlie; smart-commit and branch-key integration that updates issues… | ||
| Going bananas with recursion schemes for fixed point data types | Pawel Szulc | 01h 02m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| Teaching Your Team CQRS/ES 2.0 | Chris Condron | 54m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| Name Stuff | Osvaldas Grigas | 56m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| Zero defects, zero progress | Ewald Roodenrijs | 34m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| RPC is Evil | Ian Cooper | 01h 01m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| The Long Sad History of Microservices | Greg Young | 54m |
Argues microservices are mostly rebranded SOA and older ideas—actors, Erlang, VMS mailboxes—and shows trade-offs with concrete examples: a pricing service with… | ||
| Creating DSLs in Idiomatic Kotlin | Hadi Hariri | 48m |
Kotlin's extension functions, lambdas with receivers and infix notation make it unusually good at domain-specific languages. Hadi Hariri builds DSLs live… | ||
| Your manager’s greatest fear | Titas Norkūnas | 32m |
Company runs a pre-loved marketplace; an intern implements an event deduplication that collapses repeated index events into a three‑second debounce, cutting… | ||
| A practical RxJava example with Ratpackt | Laurent Doguin | 53m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| Consul Demystified: Exploring the principles behind better service discovery | James Geall | 53m |
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| Understanding and building your own Docker | Motiejus Jakštys | 56m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| GPUs - Not Just for Graphics Anymore | David Ostrovsky | 59m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| The Biggest Trick Consultants | Paul Stack | 58m |
Claim: continuous delivery is harder than consultants sell and requires measurable changes not scripts. Concrete practices: build binaries once, use same… | ||
| How Do You Know When Your Product is Ready to be Shipped? | Yegor Bugayenko | 49m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| Engineering for Engineering's Sake | Mindaugas Mozūras | 41m |
Company builds a social feed using Redis and hits operational and knowledge gaps that take about a year and a half to resolve, ultimately migrating to Redis… | ||
| A Visual Thinking Warmup for developers | Alex West | 54m |
Introduces Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) as a facilitation method that runs short, evidence-based image sessions — typically three images at ~15–20 minutes… | ||
| Testing Strategy - New Model, Better Outcomes | David Laribee | 58m |
Compares concrete testing models (debugger-driven, testing pyramid, cupcake anti‑pattern) and claims teams often accumulate brittle suites — one case creates… | ||
| Functional C++ | Kevlin Henney | 01h 02m |
Argues that applying functional techniques to modern C++ yields clearer, safer, testable code without losing runtime performance: uses std::function and… | ||
| Scaling robots and other stuff with Erlang | Natalia Chechina | 53m |
Erlang/SD-Erlang is shown to handle robotics coordination and failures far better than a ROS-only setup: a prototype uses face tracking with ROS + Erlang where… | ||
| Road to polyglot persistence | Tim Cools | 55m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| Modern Software Delivery: Triumphs and Failures | Zachary Schneider | 49m |
Argues that containers break operability (kernel panics on aufs/device‑mapper, slow layer pulls) so the team reverts to OS packages, builds a Go toolset and a… | ||
| Metrics driven development | Sam Elamin | 34m |
Shows how JustEat ties product decisions to concrete signals: push business counters (logins, orders), measure timers and gauges for APIs and boxes, ship logs… | ||
| Windows at Scale | Peter Mounce | 01h 03m |
Just Eat migrates a Windows platform into AWS, standardizes on Packer-built AMIs, CloudFormation stacks and autoscaling groups, and moves from ~10–20 yearly… | ||
| Haskell On Rails | Jezen Thomas | 49m |
Haskell runs real Rails-like SaaS: uses Yesod for type-safe routing and compile-time-checked Hamlet templates, ties models to forms and a declarative schema… | ||
| Agile Application Security | Michael Brunton-Spall | 57m |
Argues that checkbox security is theater and agile demands security become an enabler, not a gatekeeper, by shipping frequently and accepting continual risk… | ||
| Webmasters, Full Stack Developers and Other Legends | Dylan Beattie | 39m |
The talk traces concrete failures and inventions that shape today’s web: the original stack of HTTP HTML URIs as a simple, composable protocol set; Netscape… | ||
| I want a Pony! | Piotr Buda | 52m |
Pony claims a statically checked type system that guarantees no data races, deadlocks, nulls or unhandled exceptions if the program compiles, using six… | ||
| Edge-Free Programming | Michael Feathers | 38m |
Argues that many bugs vanish when error handling is moved to the outer layer and the core runs straight‑line; demonstrates with a guitar‑tablature converter… | ||
| Angular, the Sequel | Tibi Covaci | 58m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| The Zen of UI Test Automation | Rachel Appel | 54m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| Stop the Internet, I want to go offline | Boyan Mihaylov | 56m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| Production Readiness Strategies for an Automated World | Sean Chittenden | 59m |
Argues that production readiness is about checklists, automation, and organizational practices more than raw tech; demonstrates concrete items to demand before… | ||
| reF#ACTORing using F# and actor model | Vagif Abilov | 53m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| Deploy Stuff, Run Stuff | Kris Buytaert | 45m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| Agile experiments in Machine Learning with F# | Mathias Brandewinder | 51m |
From #Vilnius to #Mallorca! BUILD STUFF is going to celebrate summer! An amazing weekend on APRIL 29-30, 2017 – MALLORCA, SPAIN will take you out of the office… | ||
| Assembly crash course | Hanneli Tavante | 57m |
Short, concrete tour of what assembly actually does: shows 6800 and 8086 architectures, explains registers (8-bit vs 16-bit), the program counter, flag bits… | ||
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