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George Belotsky
Chief Scientist, CinematX Digital Inc.

George Belotsky is Chief Scientist at CinematX Digital, a company exploring the combination of virtualization and distributed video. He has done extensive work on high performance Internet servers as well as hard real time and embedded systems. His technology interests include Python, C++ and Linux. George has written articles for O’Reilly Network, LinuxWorld and the Linux Journal. His article on C++ memory management made the best of 2003 list on O’Reilly ONLamp. George has also presented at PyCon, LinuxWorld and other venues.

Sessions

4:30pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Encapsulation & Its Discontents: Applying Normal Accident Theory to Software Design

Programming
Location: D139/140

George Belotsky (CinematX Digital Inc.), Heath Johns (CinematX Digital Inc.)

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Normal Accident Theory (NAT) describes the potential for failure in many diverse systems, from nuclear reactors to marine shipping. It also predicts many classical techniques that good programmers have come to rely on. A NAT-based approach provides a unifying view that helps you avoid the hidden dangers of otherwise useful constructs, and improves the reliability of the software you build. Read more.