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Application Design Parables: What Real Life Teaches us about Proper Application Design

Event: SCaLE 19x

Dates: July 29, 2022

Presentation: July 29, 2022

Link: On event website

Speaker: Matt Yonkovit

The world is filled with concrete and tactile examples of poor application design and its impact on the real world.  Come and listen to stories like:

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What can Chick-Fil-A teach us about queuing, prioritization, and servicing requests

What do Las Vegas Buffets teach us about Licensing of software?

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Application Design Parables: What Real Life Teaches us about Proper Application Design

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Matt Yonkovit

Matt Yonkovit

Matt Yonkovit was Head of Open Source Strategy (HOSS) at Percona. He has over 15 years in open source, including more than 10 years leading teams. That mix covers both the technical and business side of open source databases: hands-on work, management, and building teams. At Percona he ran or helped run service delivery (consulting, support, managed services), customer success, product management, marketing, and operations, and later OSPO, community, and developer relations. He hosted the HOSS talks FOSS podcast and writes about MySQL and PostgreSQL.

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