Open Source Bridge

Excerpt

Description

You’ve seen a million best practice talks. In this session I’ll review mistakes I’ve made and lessons learned. Come laugh, groan, and cringe, as we review:

- When scope doesn’t just creep, it gallops

- Death sprints: the agile way to approach a death march

- Testing: how to do an abysmal job and how to do a good enough job to feel wildly overconfident. Bonus: how to make your software untestable!

- Configuration and database migrations (as if the code wasn’t hard enough)

- How to make operations hate you by requiring encyclopaedic knowledge to push out a release

Attendees will leave confident that they will never make these mistakes (again). They’ll make new and original ones instead.

Speaking experience

Speaker

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  Laura Thomson

  Mozilla
  • Website: http://laurathomson.com/
  • Blog: http://laurathomson.com/
  • Twitter: lxt

  Biography

  Laura Thomson is the Webtools Engineering Manager at Mozilla. She formerly worked as a consultant and trainer on various Open Source technologies.

  Laura is the co-author of “PHP and MySQL Web Development” and “MySQL Tutorial”. She is a veteran speaker at Open Source conferences world wide.

  Sessions

  • * Firefox Crash Reporting: Using Big Data in Your Open Source Project
    • Title: Firefox Crash Reporting: Using Big Data in Your Open Source Project
    • Track: Chemistry
    • Room: B204
    • Time: 1:30 – 2:15pm
    • Excerpt:

      Learn how Mozilla collects and analyzes three million crash reports a day with Python, PHP, PostgreSQL and HBase.

    • Speakers: Laura Thomson
  • * How Not to Release Software
    • Title: How Not to Release Software
    • Track: Business
    • Room: B202/203
    • Time: 10:00 – 10:45am
    • Excerpt:

      You’ve seen a million best practice talks. This is quite the opposite: I’ll instruct you in the ways I’ve failed over twenty years of software development, and advise you how not to make the same mistakes.

    • Speakers: Laura Thomson