Speaker: Tom Johnson

Software Engineer @UnrulyCo

Tom is a senior software developer at Unruly (an ad tech company), and previously worked at LMAX: both companies as well-known for their agile/xp process as their technical credentials. Tom is a born-again software developer - having gone back to university to study computer science in later years - and is always keen to find ways to make it hard to be wrong, be it through better testing, better processes, or better languages.

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Talk: Extreme Programming Meets Realtime Data

Track: Fast & Furious: Ad Serving, Finance, & Performance

Location: Churchill, G flr.

Day of week: Tuesday

Duration: 1:40pm - 2:30pm

At Unruly, we're fast and furious both in terms of the volumes we're handling and in our development process. Scaling incrementally has raised some interesting challenges in how to deal with growing data volumes, and by trying to deliver value in small steps, we've ended up with some unconventional solutions. We'll talk about scaling problems we've encountered, and where extreme programming values led us.

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