Luka Kladaric
Shipping Quality Software In Hostile Environments
#1about 4 minutes
Defining hostile environments and technical debt
Technical debt is the implied cost of easy solutions, manifesting as unpaginated APIs, fragile code, and broken deployment processes.
#2about 6 minutes
The compounding harm of ignoring technical debt
Common excuses for tech debt lead to a vicious cycle of lower productivity, tanking morale, and a "bad neighborhood" codebase where quality standards are abandoned.
#3about 7 minutes
A case study of a company in tech bankruptcy
A real-world example shows how a monolithic repo, on-premise tooling, and a lack of local development environments led to daily outages and technical bankruptcy.
#4about 6 minutes
How a small team fixed tech bankruptcy incrementally
A small ops team worked "in the shadows" to incrementally rebuild the build server, split the monorepo, and automate deployments using Ansible.
#5about 4 minutes
Rebranding tech debt as ongoing sustainability work
Shift the mindset from "paying down tech debt" to "sustainability work," treating it as regular hygiene necessary to maintain development velocity.
#6about 10 minutes
Gaining management buy-in for sustainability work
To convince leadership, avoid all-or-nothing projects, deliver small valuable increments, and frame the work as essential for maintaining long-term productivity.
#7about 3 minutes
Why everyone in the company should care about sustainability
Sustainable development is a shared responsibility from the CEO to junior engineers, as it ensures the company can continue to deliver results efficiently.
#8about 2 minutes
Why rewriting from scratch is almost never the answer
The software industry is filled with failed rewrites, making incremental refactoring a much safer and more effective approach than starting over.
Related jobs
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
Featured Partners
Related Videos
41:06From Monolith Tinkering to Modern Software Development
Lars Gentsch
46:37What Developers Get Wrong About Application Quality
Chris Riley
23:44The QUEST for Better Software
Richard Bown
34:46We adopted DevOps and are Cloud-native, Now What?
Bruno Amaro Almeida
42:34How To Test A Ball of Mud
Ryan Latta
30:46Charting the Journey to Continuous Deployment with a Value Stream Map
Josh Armitage
29:38Answering the Million Dollar Question: Why did I Break Production?
Luís Ventura
24:38Resolving technical debts in software architecture
Carola Lilienthal
From learning to earning
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.
DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes & Cloud (m/w/d)
epostbox epb GmbH
Berlin, Germany
Intermediate
Senior
DevOps
Kubernetes
Cloud (AWS/Google/Azure)
Site Reliability Engineering Manager
Canonical Ltd.
Municipality of Salamanca, Spain
Remote
Linux
DevOps
Kubernetes
Agile Methodologies
Lead DevOps Engineer - Open-source, GitHub, CI/CD
RM IT Professional Resources AG
Basel, Switzerland
Senior
DevOps
Gitlab
Continuous Integration