{"id":2932,"date":"2017-02-19T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T15:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voxxeddays.com\/bucharest\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2017-02-20T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T08:45:16","slug":"simplicity-through-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voxxeddays.com\/greece\/2017\/02\/19\/simplicity-through-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplicity through design"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Simplicity through design<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"image-medalion-post alignright wp-image-1971\" src=\"\/\/incremental.community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/virgil-palanciuc.png\" alt=\"Virgil Palanciuc\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m a software engineer at heart, but I dabbled in other related areas like product management and data science. I&#8217;ve worked on systems in many languages, using many different technologies, at various levels of abstraction: from optimized assembly code (added SIMD instruction support in Flash Player virtual machine), to cross-platform desktop applications, to web applications, to &#8220;big data&#8221; services. I&#8217;ve experienced working both with resource-constrained embedded systems, and with very large scale distributed systems. I&#8217;ve co-authored\/ contributed to cool things such as a new processor&#8217;s instruction set architecture, or the definition of a new web standard. Currently, I&#8217;m doing backend engineering work using mostly Scala &amp; Spark &#8211; but my background &amp; interests are rather diverse, so who knows what I&#8217;ll do next?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This talk is about the importance of simplicity in software design, and why it&#8217;s so hard (but very important) to even agree on what it&#8217;s simple and what isn&#8217;t. 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