Jorge Barroso
Senior Software Engineer @Topi
Jorge J Barroso, developer of little, learner of much. Too many years between the keyboard and the chair; he has programmed video games, mobile apps, backends, and even dared to do some frontend. In his spare time he enjoys his family, plays board games, and finds time to design his own and get them published. He now breaks things at topi.
Talk
Life, lineage, birth, upbringing, and adventures of a backend
For the last 4 years, I’ve been working on the development and definition of topi’s backend, a fintech startup. I’ve witnessed and taken part in decisions from its creation to its recent integration into a larger group. In this talk, we’ll take a short journey through the challenges we’ve encountered, the decisions we made, and the lessons learned from them.
Does microservices solve everything? Are a few acceptance tests better than many unit tests? Is CQRS the solution to your problems? How far can we postpone decisions? What is the long-term cost of the chosen programming language and frameworks? We’ll ask ourselves these and a few more questions—not to give you answers, but to leave you with new doubts.
