When Software Saves Lives - Developers as First Responders
summary
More than 300,000 people are temporarily laid off and within days a cross‑functional group of ~300 staff builds a web application that automates unemployment claims, pays out ~1 billion NOK in the first week and ~8.5 billion NOK over a year. The stack is Kotlin backend calling legacy COBOL, React/TypeScript frontend, feature toggles and Amplitude for metrics, and CI via GitHub Actions to a Kubernetes (nice.io) platform — launched in production Monday and scaled under load.
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chapters (35)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:24Agenda
- 2:08First Responders
- 3:49The Pandemic
- 6:54National Insurance Act
- 7:55Municipal Public Offices
- 11:21Crossfunctional Team
- 12:45History
- 14:24Legacy Systems
- 15:31Microservices
- 17:21Websphere
- 18:41Development Process
- 19:25How was this affecting our teams
- 20:54Why did it go wrong
- 22:06We have a responsibility
- 22:21We started the digital transformation
- 22:49monoliths
- 23:51market service architecture
- 26:02tools
- 26:35hardware
- 27:17open source
- 27:32enable teams
- 30:03delivery pipeline
- 30:56design system
- 31:58metrics
- 32:09Amplitude
- 32:48Product Mindset
- 34:32Ability to Change
- 35:18Alignment
- 36:00Culture
- 36:49Example
- 37:47Psychological Safety
- 38:51Leadership
- 41:57Digital Transformation
- 43:27Product Development Mindset
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