Department of  Computing

Applications of Computing in Industry : Lecture

01 November
Noon, LT308 Huxley
 
company: Ocado

Title: What you need to know about software development that they won't teach you at University
Abstract:

Ocado is an award winning online retailer that is revolutionising the way people buy their groceries. Ocado has no shops; instead its customers place their orders on the Ocado website or mobile platforms and these are then picked and packed in a huge automated warehouse (the largest of its kind in the world), from where they are then delivered to customers around the country within one hour slots.

This talk is based upon feedback from our intern and graduate intake over the years. It explores dimensions of real world enterprise development often not found in traditional University courses but which students are likely to encounter when released into the wild, including:

  • Managing the development, build, integration and testing of software at scale
  • Production hardening of software systems within high availability environments
  • The storage, processing and aggregation of large volumes of data within complex schemas
  • Architecting highly modular and scalable systems
  • Software engineering based upon Agile techniques such as Scrum and XP

So if you are eager to find out what software development is like in the real world then we will see you there!

Speaker Details: James Donkin
 

James Donkin is Head of Lastmile Systems at Ocado, having previously lead the Routing Systems development team, having started at Ocado as a developer working on creating the Loki in house route optimisation and slot booking system, after working in software development in a range of industries including both bricks and mortar retail and e-commerce. His current areas of interest include integration architectures, web services and messaging technologies, distributed computing, Agile development methodologies, and cloud computing.


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