Presentation: "Performance Art"

Time: Wednesday 13:00 - 14:00

Location: Conference Hall

Abstract:

Some systems really need to care about performance, some systems need to care less. Some developers spend a lot of time focusing on performance, whereas others do not perceive it as an issue. So, what is performance? Why and when should we care about it? And how do we go about getting it?

This talk takes a look at the concepts and challenges involved in the quality of performance, some design techniques that help to improve performance and the contexts in which they apply, along with addressing issues of development process approaches that help to determine when and what to do about performance.

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Kevlin Henney, Independent Consultant

 Kevlin  Henney

Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant and trainer based in Bristol, UK. He has variously developed and delivered training courses, consultancy and software across a number of domains ever since getting involved in professional software development in the late 1980s.

Kevlin's work focuses on software architecture, patterns, development process and programming languages.

He has been a columnist for various magazines and online publications, including The Register, Java Report and C++ Report. With Frank Buschmann and Doug Schmidt, he is coauthor of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series.