The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) in Israel organized a special event about Adaptive Software Systems. I was glad to be invited to give a talk about “Antifragile Software Design”.

Title: Antifragile Software Design

Abstract: The concept of Antifragility was introduced by Nassim Taleb to describe systems that benefit from impacts and volatility.

In this talk we will discuss how this concept may be applied in the field of Software Design with the goal of developing Change-Resilient Systems.

In particular we will address two patterns which frequently appear in Antifragile systems:

1) The Barbell Strategy and the importance of the separation between high-level abstract elements and concrete implementation details.

2) The Componentization Strategy and its applications in SOA, Microservices and Software Product Lines.

Bio: Hayim Makabee was born in Rio de Janeiro. He immigrated to Israel in 1992 and completed his M.Sc. studies on Computer Sciences at the Technion. Since then he worked for several hi-tech companies, including also some start-ups. Currently he is a Predictive Analytics Expert at Pontis. He is also a co-founder of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) in Israel. Hayim is the author of a book about Object-Oriented Programming and has published papers in the fields of Software Engineering, Distributed Systems and Genetic Algorithms.

These are the original slides of Hayim’s presentation:

Here is the video of the talk (in Hebrew):

Please see here my previous posts on Antifragility and Software Design.

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