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Michael Feathers is the Founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, a company specializing in software and organization design.
Prior to forming R7K, Michael was the Chief Scientist of Obtiva and a consultant with Object Mentor International. Over the past 20 years, he has consulted with hundreds of organizations, supporting them with general software design issues, process change and code revitalization. A frequent presenter at national and international conferences, Michael is also the author of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Prentice Hall, 2004).

Twitter: @mfeathers

06.05.2019

Exceptions, Maybe

LOCATION: Zürich
KEYWORDS: Architecture, Language, Lessons learned

AGENDA:18:15-19:30h: Talk incl. Q/A
Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment.

SPEAKER: Michael Feathers   COMPANY: r7k
SLIDES: 190516_exceptions_maybe.pdf

The mechanisms we use for error handling have been evolving rapidly in modern programming languages. In the beginning, Java had checked and unchecked exceptions. More recently, however, it has joined a number of languages in introducing more functional approaches to error detection and propagation.

In this talk, Michael Feathers will compare and contrast a number of error handling mechanisms and show how careful design can make the choice of mechanism immaterial in many cases. We’ll explore the idea that when failure is a first class consideration across design, code can become simpler and more robust simultaneously.

LEVEL OF TALK: Intermediate
LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en

Michael Feathers is the Founder and Director of R7K Research & Conveyance, a company specializing in software and organization design.
Prior to forming R7K, Michael was the Chief Scientist of Obtiva and a consultant with Object Mentor International. Over the past 20 years, he has consulted with hundreds of organizations, supporting them with general software design issues, process change and code revitalization. A frequent presenter at national and international conferences, Michael is also the author of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Prentice Hall, 2004).

Twitter: @mfeathers

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