guest-lecture

Felienne Hermans will talk about cognitive refactoring. Felienne is an Associate Professor at Leiden University, and the author of The Programmer’s Brain. Hyrum Wright will talk about large-scale refactoring. Hyrum is a staff software engineer at Google and one of the authors of the Software Engineering at Google, also known as the Flamingo book.

Diomidis Spinellis will talk about CScout, the C refactoring browser: Despite its maturity and popularity, the C programming language still lacks tool support for reliably performing even simple refactoring, browsing, or analysis operations. This is primarily due to identifier scope complications introduced by the C preprocessor. The CScout refactoring browser analyses complete program families by tagging the original identifiers with their precise location and classifying them into equivalence classes orthogonal to the C language’s namespace and scope extents.

Architecting for Business as Unusual

Architecting for Operations: Boring is Awesome. Steffan Norberhuis is independent Cloud & DevOps Consultant, and a TU Delft alumnus. He has worked for such companies as ABN AMRO, Independer, and Portbase (Rotterdam).

Architecture in Motion: How Adyen Achieved 100x Bert Wolters is Executive Vice President Technology at Adyen, where he started working in 2010. He obtained his MSc degree in Computer Science from Delft University in 2012. Bert will take us through the growth history of Adyen, explaining how Adyen managed to double its volume year upon year.

Unix has evolved for almost five decades, shaping modern operating systems, key software technologies, and development practices. Studying the evolution of this remarkable system from an architectural perspective can provide insights on how to manage the growth of large, complex, and long-lived software systems. Along main Unix releases leading to the FreeBSD lineage we examine core architectural design decisions, the number of features, and code complexity, based on the analysis of source code, reference documentation, and related publications.