Michiel Rook

Michiel Rook

Michiel Rook is an experienced, passionate & pragmatic freelance coach, developer & speaker from the Netherlands. He loves helping teams and companies to develop better software and significantly improve their delivery process. When he’s not thinking about continuous deployment, devops or event sourcing he enjoys music, cars, sports and movies.

Montreal 2023 sessions

Dealing with change in event sourced applications

English session - Intermediate

In software development, change is pretty much the only constant factor. In fact, embracing change is one of the twelve principles behind the Agile Manifesto. However, changing event sourced applications can be very challenging.

In this talk, we’ll explore how to deal with projection updates, event updates and versioning, and existing privacy legislation (such as the GDPR).

Safety thinking and safety science: a primer

English session - Intermediate

How we look at incidents, risks & safety is changing, both in- and outside our industry. And there is a lot of exciting research done in the field of safety science.

This talk will give an introductory overview of topics like Safety I & Safety II, systems thinking, human error & human factors, resilience engineering and adaptive organizations, as well as a series of literature tips to continue your learning journey.

Montreal 2022 sessions

Online 2021 sessions

Montreal 2020 sessions

Montreal 2019 sessions

Montreal 2018 sessions