Main Hall 07: Developer smackdown!

You know the drill, there are a lot of fundamentals that developers disagree on. Tabs vs Spaces, GraphQL vs REST, and Majestic Monoliths vs Micro Services. Get behind your preferred point of view in this developer vs developer smackdown! In this animated presentation, brother-sister duo Selena and Michael debate and fight out both sides of various topics. Classics like Tabs vs Spaces to more modern arguments like SQL vs NoSQL, traditional vs new tech, TDD vs shipping written code, and Trunk vs Branches. You'll end up with quite a review of current practices, with all the pros and cons. There will also be some more nuanced topics like Agile vs Wagile (waterfall agile) and pairing vs soloing. From two presenters who both worked very closely in a strict pairing, trunk-based development shop and have since converged on new preferences, be ready for a rollercoaster of thoughts and arguments as well as some late twists, and even a bit of developer comedy. --- Selena Small is a full-stack lead engineer at Fresho in Melbourne, Australia. She is particularly passionate about TDD. As a self-taught coder with a background in management, she is well-equipped to mentor others. She is a recently retired champion kickboxer and fills her spare time with international travel and speaking at tech conferences. Michael Milewski is a developer keen on the people side of things. He loves pairing, and in particular with people new to writing software. He especially likes driving software out with tests and directing the evolution of the design. In his spare time, he does a bit of running, camping and watching any one of his four kids excel above anything he ever managed to achieve.