Mik Kersten

As developers, we're familiar with the endless pains that result from maintaining overly complex systems. Some complexity is accidental, so we continually strive to remove its overhead from our application. The latest crop of frameworks and dynamic languages has demonstrated just how far simple implementations can go. However, many applications have an essential complexity that cannot be further reduced without sacrificing end-user functionality or integration. When trying to figure out how we make our workdays easier and our programming hours more effective, the key questions we are faced with are: How can we reduce accidental complexity when building an application? How can we manage the inherent complexity that's there?  Solutions to this problem surface as innovatio... (more)