Moriel Schottlender
MediaWiki Technical Strategy and Features at the Wikimedia Foundation
New York City, New York, United States
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Moriel is a physicist turned software engineer turned systems architect, currently working on modernizing Wikipedia’s systems. She’s an Open Source enthusiast, right-to-left language support and localization evangelist, and a general domain hoarder.
Area of Expertise
Evolving Wikipedia: A Case Study in Applying Domain-Driven Design in a Challenging System
This talk will present a case study of utilizing Domain-Driven Design (DDD) methodologies to address the challenges of evolving Wikipedia's underlying system architecture. Wikipedia is a 23-year-old open-source monolith that serves billions of reads and millions of simultaneous writes, with a unique combination of dynamic user-generated content and workflows. The scale, complexity, and socio-technical nature of Wikipedia make it a challenging environment for applying DDD. This talk will discuss the process of mapping the system to understand potential pitfalls, discover opportunities, and inform product strategy.
Collaboratively Mapping Trade-offs for Decision-Making
Have you ever needed to make an important decision and advocate for the best solution? What if your stakeholders all think they want something different? How do you handle unexpected changes in requirements? Why does that happen? Ideally, we'd always want all stakeholders to have a shared understanding of the problem and its circumstances. But what if stakeholders and decision owners agree on the information, but everyone still comes up with a different result? Why is that? And what can you do about that?
This is where trade-offs come in! Every solution has tradeoffs: the cost, risks, benefits and potential pitfalls of each decision. Recognizing and agreeing on those tradeoffs can help us navigate the available options, and their complexity – so that we can make an actionable decision in a timely manner.
This workshop is designed to do two things: First, introduce a framework for bringing those trade-offs to light and weighing them collaboratively. Then, guide you through utilizing it to reach actionable decisions. By understanding, discussing and outlining the trade-offs, organizations can make better decisions.
The components of the workshop are as follows:
* Working together to understand and articulate the problem statement
* How to illustrate viable options
* How to discover the tradeoffs
* How do handle unexpected changes
* How to describe the practical needs and cost behind options collaboratively
* How to present the result for executive buy-in for systemic change
Participants will be divided into groups and given a problem statement simulating a real-world scenario. They will then work together to figure out possible solutions and outline the trade-offs of each path forward. As with any realistic simulation, there will be surprises!
Domain-Driven Design Europe 2024 Sessionize Event
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