Norbert Hartl - The ins and outs and ups and downs of deployed Smalltalk images - 30 September 2026

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Deploying a Smalltalk image as a service raises a new class of questions, and answering requests is the least of them. What are the ins and outs of a running image — what do you put in, what does it report back out? And what about its ups and downs, now that staying up is the job?

Canopy, grown out of running ApptiveGrid in production, is one way to look at those differently: two things you normally maintain separately turn out to be the same thing. Along the way we work out what actually matters when you have to keep a service running — and what follows from that is the rest of the talk.

Norbert Hartl is an experienced software engineer and entrepreneur with a strong track record of delivering business projects and developing key libraries and frameworks. As the co-founder of ApptiveGrid he focuses on creating efficient, zero-dependency software solutions that drive business innovation and streamline operations.

This will be an online meeting.

If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page to receive the meeting details.

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