Dave Farley has been having fun with computers for nearly 30 years. Over that period he has worked on most types of software, from firmware, through tinkering with operating systems and device drivers, to writing games, and commercial applications of all shapes and sizes. He started working in large scale distributed systems about 20 years ago, doing research into the development of loose-coupled, message-based systems - a forerunner of SOA. He has a wide range of experience leading the development of complex software in teams, both large and small, in the UK and USA. Dave was an early adopter of agile development techniques, employing iterative development, continuous integration and significant levels of automated testing on commercial projects from the early 1990s. Dave is currently Head of Software Development for LMAX ltd, an organisation that is building one of the highest performance financial exchanges in the world.

Dave is co-author of the book "Continuous Delivery" which describes the use of high levels of automation and collaboration in the delivery process to ensure high quality software and a reduction in errors and late nights. Dave is also head of software development for LMAX Ltd who use these techniques to deliver a high-performance financial exchange. This talk will introduce the ideas of Continuous Delivery as a practical everyday process, using some of the techniques and technologies that LMAX employ in their development environment as an example.

This event is being hosted by Rob McMahon at Oracle.

1830 Registration

1845 Introductions

1900 Presentation

1945 Q&A

2000 Adjourn to a nearby pub