Your Software is Mission Critical

If an autopilot fails, or a weapon system malfunctions, lives can and will be lost. As a result, significant checks, practices and concepts go into designing the software for such systems. But the code we, as developers in a wide range of jobs and fields, write can be just as critical – a delayed submission of a bank form because of a server error causes somebody to become homeless; a mistake on an immigration system causes a family to be deported; a misrouting of a delivery driver causes a car crash.

In this closing keynote we’ll ask the question – how can we take what we’ve learned at the conference, and make a difference to our work. We’ll examine lessons from how real mission critical systems work, and use these as inspiration for how we can do better, empowering our teams to use their skills & knowledge to make a difference. We can recognise that if all of our software is mission critical, we should make it our goal to build better things, and positively impact peoples’ lives.

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