How building a portable escape room made me a better developer - William Brander - NDC London 2025

This talk was recorded at NDC London in London, England. #ndclondon #ndcconferences #developer #softwaredeveloper Attend the next NDC conference near you: https://ndcconferences.com https://ndclondon.com/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel and learn every day: / @NDC Follow our Social Media! https://www.facebook.com/ndcconferences https://twitter.com/NDC_Conferences https://www.instagram.com/ndc_conferences/ #ddd #architecture #iot #microservices I built a portable IoT escape room, and it changed how I think about development! In this session, we'll uncover unexpected parallels between escape rooms and architecting resilient, scalable systems. Let me share the lessons learned, and how they translate into invaluable guidance for Domain-Driven Design (DDD), modularity, communication, scalability and fault tolerance. Doors will be unlocked at the end - even if the audience can't solve the puzzles.