When you think of a developer what comes to mind? A brogrammer living in San Francisco working 23 hours a day on the next Facebook? If so, you wouldn’t be alone. Like so many industries, software development is rife with stereotypes. And one that is particularly pervasive is the idea that all developers, if given … Read More
Why has design thinking become such a popular topic and methodology in the past 5-10 years? From Harvard Business Review, to public school education and from the Silicon Valley to the White House, more people are incorporating this problem solving method into their strategy work. In this interactive session, Len and Natalie will share basic … Read More
Why has design thinking become such a popular topic and methodology in the past 5-10 years? From Harvard Business Review, to public school education and from the Silicon Valley to the White House, more people are incorporating this problem solving method into their strategy work. In this interactive session, Len and Natalie will share basic … Read More
Learning a new language is what we do as engineers. It’s fun, it’s reinvigorating, and it’s challenging. But it’s not often that you learn a brand new language and then implement it side by side in a code base with another language. Especially when the other language is sad because it knows you’e replacing it … Read More
Property-based testing is as close to a panacea as we are likely to get in the software industry. Whether you’re someone who loves writing tests or someone who finds testing tedious, identifying and testing the properties and invariants of your code can produce more useful (and more interesting) tests. This talk will briefly cover what … Read More
It’s finally happened. .NET Core and ASP.NET Core are open source and run everywhere. You can develop with .NET Core languages in the open on GitHub and iterate quickly. How did this happen? How does .NET and C# run on linux, windows, Mac, Raspberry Pi and Apple Watch? What language features do C# and F# … Read More
When the Swift programming language was released people argued about what sort of language it was. “It’s functional,” some argued and then criticized it for not being functional enough. “It’s OO,” others scoffed and then bemoaned the features they longed for from Objective-C. “It’s a Protocol Oriented language,” said Apple at the famous Crusty talk … Read More
The modern operator faces a tension between varying levels of blind and varying levels of broke. Operational Telemetry solutions at scale are some of the largest, most expensive yet mission critical systems that exist. This talk focuses on the strategy and use of multiple providers to provide a suite of cost-effective telemetry solutions that work … Read More
Keeping up with the pace of change in emerging technology is an ever present challenge for enterprises. Trying to build systems that age and evolve gracefully over time is not a small task. We are all familiar with frameworks that help us implement architectural patterns, especially application architecture. In this session we will investigate Lagom, … Read More
Two years ago it already was one of the largest ecommerce platforms in Ukraine. Built in Python/Django it couldn’t handle any spikes in traffic and was hard to maintain and improve. How do you change a platform on the fly? A tale of Clojure and ClojureScript, its incredible ecosystem and a crazy team which brought … Read More
