Ada Mensah
Platform engineer
On the decisions that make a system easier to maintain a year later.
01 / The idea
The work behind the work.
Trace is a two-day gathering for developers who care about how software behaves after launch. Expect practical talks, live reviews, and enough time to ask the awkward questions.
02 / Program
Two days, one conversation.
A draft of the room's rhythm, from first coffee to the last question.
Sample program: names, times, and sessions are illustrative.
Day 01
Wednesday, October 14
- 09:00
Doors and coffee
Open room
- 10:00
The cost of later
Ada Mensah
- 11:30
The interface under pressure
Jun Park
- 14:00
Caches, queues, and the messy middle
Leila Haddad
Day 02
Thursday, October 15
- 09:30
Morning notes
Open room
- 10:00
Design for failure, then recovery
Tomas Vale
- 11:30
A keyboard-first product review
Jun Park
- 14:00
What we keep from the prototype
Ada Mensah + Leila Haddad
03 / Speakers
The voices in the room.
Four perspectives on building for the long run.
Jun Park
Accessibility engineer
On testing an interface when the keyboard is the only way in.
Leila Haddad
Database engineer
On the tradeoffs hiding between a fast query and a reliable service.
Tomas Vale
Developer tooling designer
On making failure states clear enough to act on.