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 2025 sessions
Learning in production (or why Apollo 11 nearly failed)
English session - Beginner
Tests, monitoring, these help us assert the known knowns of our systems. But what about the known unknowns? Or, especially in complex distributed systems, the unknown unknowns? What can we learn from the space program? What can we learn from the Apollo 11 landing? How can we prepare for the unknown and build our adaptive capacity?
The hidden dance of complexity
English session - Intermediate
Complexity is all around us. We are, we are part of, and we build dynamic complex systems.And yet we have trouble grasping it! In this talk we'll dive into the intricacies of complexity. Join me to explore its formal definition, concepts like reversibility and reductionism, and the profound effects of non-linearity. We'll delve into the human and organizational perspective on complexity, and how changes and incidents are shaped by it.
