Chris Simon
where else to find them
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
no series more than once — all 12 in the filters
on a stage with
- Adel Faizrakhmanovonce
- Andrey Skladchikovonce
- Daniel Moranonce
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who talks about the same things
- Dmitry Vinnik25 talks
- Victor Rentea45 talks
- Dennis Doomen14 talks
- Tom Cools16 talks
- Jimmy Bogard50 talks
- Layla Porter35 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| It's like 10,000 streams when what you need is a queue | NDC Copenhagen 2026 | 2026-06-01 |
Compares concrete tradeoffs between Kafka (distributed log) and queue-based brokers like RabbitMQ/AWS SNS+SQS and Azure Service Bus, showing who tracks… | ||
| A Defence of Technical Excellence | NDC London 2026 | 2026-01-26 |
Argues that internal quality drives a reinforcing loop of confusion, bugs and slowed delivery, and models that loop with causal loop diagrams using the browser… | ||
| TDD & DDD from the Ground Up | GOTO Copenhagen 2025 | 2025-09-29 |
Live-coding through a git repo with per-commit steps demonstrates building a university enrolment system in Java (C# option exists), starting as minimal CRUD… | ||
| Chris Simon at DDD Europe 2025 | DDD Europe 2025 | 2025-06-02 |
Characterizes confusion using Peter Now's concept as the absence of a theory of a system or an incomplete or inaccurate theory that breaks reasoning about… | ||
| Chris Simon at DDD Europe 2025 | DDD Europe 2025 | 2025-06-02 |
Argues that defending technical excellence means actively protecting internal quality by surfacing the informal theory developers hold about the system and… | ||
| Chris Simon at DDD Europe 2025 | DDD Europe 2025 | 2025-06-02 |
The talk maps how combining a new croft reinforcing feedback loop with low impact bugs and high impact bugs feedback loops creates a system where the… | ||
| A Defence of Technical Excellence | DDD Europe 2025 | 2025-06-02 |
Claim: the usual good fast cheap, pick two trade-off is a fallacy for software because hidden reinforcing feedback loops (bugs + technical debt → confusion →… | ||
| Accessibility + TDD == easy && !impossible | NDC Melbourne 2025 | 2025-04-29 |
Shows how Test-Driven Development uses the accessibility APIs to make front-end work faster and safer: builds a Next.js/Tailwind/React enrollment page driven… | ||
| TDD & DDD from the Ground Up | NDC Melbourne 2025 | 2025-04-29 |
Live-coding builds a university enrolment API from zero to working system with 122 git steps, using xUnit and WebApplicationFactory for API tests, Entity… | ||
| JetBrains Plugin Developer Conf 2024 | JetBrains Plugin Developer Conf 2024 | 2024-11-07 |
Virtual day of short, practical sessions about building, shipping and supporting IDE plugins: Marketplace metrics and policies (9,000+ plugins, 8.3M monthly… | ||
| Experiences Building a Language Server Protocol Plugin | JetBrains Plugin Developer Conf 2024 | 2024-11-07 |
Built a multi‑IDE LSP system called Contextive that serves domain term definitions from a YAML repo file to show hover tooltips across Java, Kotlin, JS/TS and… | ||
| TDD & DDD from the Ground Up Live Coding | Voxxed Days Brussels 2024 | 2024-05-21 |
Live coding builds a tiny university API with live coding tests that start as API-level TDD and evolve into focused unit tests, using Spring Boot controllers… | ||
| TDD & DDD from the Ground Up (Live Coding) | NDC Sydney 2024 | 2024-02-12 |
Live coding shows a .NET Web API built with C# (optionally Java) using xUnit, WebApplicationFactory and in‑memory EF while following red–green–refactor TDD… | ||
| When Customers Don't Share A Language | YOW! Perth 2023 | 2023-09-11 |
A 2015-born healthcare and disability insurance claiming platform models three phases: build a claiming context and plan tracking to let providers submit… | ||
| Winning at Continuous Deployment: The Art of Safe Contract Changes | Agile on the Beach 2023 | 2023-07-06 |
Shows a concrete failure mode when changing an API and a schema during rolling deploys: a demo web app on AWS (deployed with CDK) swaps a single "name" field… | ||
| Learning to Love DDD - a Tale of Two Products | KanDDDinsky 2022 | 2022-10-31 |
Compares two products: Flexischools (launched 2008, ~2 million users) used a hyper‑generic order/item hierarchy that treats a T‑shirt size like a sandwich… | ||
| Learning to Love DDD - a Tale of Two Products | NDC Oslo 2022 | 2022-09-26 |
Compares two real products: a 2008 school lunch/merch platform that used one overly generic data model (orders, items, min/max) and accumulated crippling… | ||
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