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Rich Hickey, TweetThe author of Clojure
Biography: Rich Hickey
Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, is an independent software designer, consultant and application architect with over 20 years of experience in all facets of software development. Rich has worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design, yield management, exit poll systems, and machine listening.Presentation: TweetSimple Made Easy
Simple has a core meaning, an understanding of which is critical to developing robust and flexible software. We should be simplifying the problem domain, and creating solutions by composing simple parts. Instead, we endure complexity, and pride ourselves in our ability to manage it. We can do better. This talk will discuss simplicity, why it is important, how to achieve it in your designs and how to recognize its absence in the tools, language constructs and libraries we use.