Malta Tech Talks #10: Best Practices Gone Wrong

​So called best practices seem to be overrated. Let's talk about that!

​MaltaTechTalks #10 program, April 15th (local time):

6pm Guest Arrival and Welcome Reception

​​6:30-6:35 pm Intro Speech

​​6:35-7:05 pm Afternoon Tea With A Grumpy Old Man, ep.2: Better Tea Than Best Practices

​Ioannis Loukeris Software Architect at Altenar

​You know all the "best practices" for your tools. But what if you have just been programmed to follow someone else's wishes, disconnected from the problems you are trying to solve? What if you just became currency for some aspiring "influencer" or even worse a slave for the army of a tech giant? What if "best practices" have totally different reasons and outcomes than what you think?

​​7:20-8:00 pm Building Engineering Culture That Actually Sticks

Christopher Bartolo, CPO, Wildz Group

​Best practices are someone else's solution to someone else's problem. Let's go beyond them and talk about building your own, grounded in the laws that govern how real teams actually work, and the biases that separate teams that ship from teams that stall.

​​8:10-8:40 pm When Best Practices Fail

​​Konrad Pizzuto, Director of Technology Operations at Altenar, Malta

​David Saliba, Director of technology at Carma International Ltd.

​Mikhail Gusarov, Head of Engineering, Blackbird

​Nikolay Markov, Data Platform Team Leader at Altenar

​What works in a textbook doesn’t always work in production. Tech leaders and architects will share their stories of times when following industry standards actually hindered their projects — and the unconventional solutions they found instead. After the lightning talks, we’re opening the floor: no slides, no filters, just open mic. Bring your own stories and join the conversation!