Killing the Monolith: modular tech for Stedelijk Museum - David Spreekmeester, Digikult 2019
Channel: Kulturutveckling VGR
Date: 10/06/2019

As a manager of a public institution or museum you want a website that is universally accessible and keeps working under all circumstances. Furthermore you want a website that lasts. Even if your needs change further down the road.

These conditions are not self-evident, as you might know from experience. But how to overcome this? Answering that question is David’s task as a Technology Strategist at GRRR. In this talk he will show how this was done, especially in regards to the work for Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In which a bold artistic statement is combined with an intuitive interface. Which is not only flexible, future-proof and durable, but also easy to use for editors – even though it’s connected to a huge art collection and various state-of-the-art online services. Using epic paintings, Swiss pocket knives and cutlery, David will explain what microservices are and how you can organise your work process to start designing them.

David Spreekmeester is a Technology Strategist and one of the founders of Grrr, a Creative Digital Agency in Amsterdam. Currently specialized in devops, distributed systems and machine learning. On the side he also likes woodworking, the Japanese language, peppers, photography and bicycles.

Filmed by David Eric Nilsson (Graph Wizz Films)