Paulien van Alst
Software engineer and speaker at OpenValue
Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
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Paulien is a passionate software engineer in love with readable, reliable, and testable code, independent of the language or technology used. At OpenValue, she works on helping companies set up better software. Lately, she has been giving presentations and workshops about what she encounters during her day-to-day work. In her free time, she likes to sport and to cook, whenever she is not rebuilding her house and garden.
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Tips and tricks to bring the fun and passion back in your team!
An IT department or team can be inspiring to see at work; passionate engineers working on new ideas, innovating new technologies, and never stop talking about it. However, this is not the case for each team or department in our industry. It is difficult to create and maintain such an inspiring environment to work in.
As a consultant, I work in teams where this is not always the case, yet, and this slows down potential projects and innovations. More importantly, people are not enjoying their work as much as they could. In those teams, I always try to turn this around. Make it fun, inspiring, and interesting to work every day.
What did I do to achieve this? By motivating the teams to share their knowledge, their learnings and experiences, by identifying and mitigating the painful parts of the processes, and by introducing ways to be proud of the work and accomplishments.
Come to this talk, discover how to bring the fun and passion back into your team, and what this will bring to you and your team.
"Fast, Scalable, and Maintainable? Rethinking distributed data processing for Java developers
Designing pipelines that transform large volumes of unstructured data into structured, searchable datasets can be challenging. These pipelines need to be flexible, scalable, and maintainable, without introducing unnecessary complexity.
In this talk, we’ll explore architecture patterns and trade-offs involved in building transformation pipelines. When should you use a workflow orchestration tool? When does it make more sense to stick with classical microservices and message queues?
Drawing from experiences in the field, we’ll compare several approaches in terms of performance, scalability, and maintainability.
This session will help you rethink your pipeline design!
The Swiss Knife to rebuilding your services; migrations done right
In our industry, applications and services are often rebuilt. Companies frequently find themselves in large, long-lasting migration projects, sometimes because management decides to switch technologies, engineers declare systems end-of-life, or the scope has evolved so much that a rebuild becomes necessary.
While these are all valid reasons to begin such a project, rebuilds often take longer than expected. As timelines slip, the business grows impatient, eager to release new features and see progress.
With well-defined goals, a clear scope, prioritized work, and managed expectations across all stakeholders, a rebuild can succeed. Clarifying the trade-offs between gains, costs, and risks is essential. Whether you're starting, continuing, or even deciding to stop a rebuild.
In this talk, I’ll share key insights, do’s and don’ts, and lessons from multiple rebuild projects, offering practical guidance for tackling your next rebuild challenge
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