This video was recorded at Code Mesh LDN 19 - http://bit.ly/37xc3Nr Get involved in Code Sync's next conference - http://bit.ly/2Mcm4aS --- THE ART OF CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS by Maxim Fedorov TALK LEVEL: Intermediate ABSTRACT We spent countless hours and sleepless nights bringing and keeping up server-side of the most successful messaging service in the world. Looking back, how many choices we'd change? And how to ensure we make the right one next time? ""The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil"" (Donald Knuth). But why does it happen? Why did we do something we didn't really want? Because we acted on assumptions. This talk will guide through a number of war stories where assumptions were made and acted on. There were regrets and disappointments, and we learned to challenge assumptions in the hard way. Now it's time to share what we learnt so far. Slides & full abstract: https://codesync.global/speaker/maxim-fedorov/ --- THE SPEAKER - MAXIM FEDOROV Evil mother of all mistakes Maxim Fedorov is a software engineer at WhatsApp, the largest messaging app. Maxim’s work is focused on performance and scalability of the server-side. Before WhatsApp, Maxim has been developing low-latency TCP/IP applications at NetAlliance (Sydney, Australia), designing Kaspersky Enterprise Security Endpoint (Moscow, Russia), improving Parallels Virtual Automation, called Odin now, at Parallels (former SWsoft), and developing network security software before. More on Maxim Fedorov: https://codesync.global/speaker/maxim-fedorov/ --- CODE SYNC & CODE MESH LDN 19 Code Mesh LDN is powered by Code Sync. Code Mesh LDN 19 was sponsored by WhatsApp, Microsoft, Erlang Solutions, Juxt, aeternity, Duffel, and IOHK. CODE SYNC Website: www.codesync.global Twitter: www.twitter.com/CodeMeshIO Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CodeSyncGlobal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/code-sync/ Mail: info at codesync.global #ServerSide #Deploy #Programming