Qualities of a Highly Effective Architect (2021)
Many developers aspire to become architects. Some of us serve currently as architects while the rest of us may hope to become one some day. We all have worked w...
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Analyzing Architectural Risk
Analyzing architectural risk is a fundamental activity for software architects or engineers who make architectural decisions. If risk (and hence architectural v...
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Kotlin Features Guaranteed to Surprise Java Developers
Kotlin is a JVM-based language, and many of its features are borrowed from related languages like Groovy and Scala. It is designed to work well with Java and to...
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Patternfly Passes With Flying Colours
There are many UI frameworks to help you build websites quickly out there, but most people tend to fall back to the default they are used to and forget about ot...
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A Dev’s Guide to Demoing
No matter where you are, at some point your work is going to have to be demonstrated to other people. Instead of having your BA or QA or even PO demo it, wouldn...
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Bridging the Gap Between Ops and Developers with CI/CD
Software development has changed dramatically in recent years; no longer can you afford to say, “That’s how we’ve always done it.” Applications are evolving rap...
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Help Your Boss Help You
Conflict between technical professionals and traditional managers is inevitable, because you want different things. Worse, most employees feel that when conflic...
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Game of Streams: How to Tame & Get the Most from your Messaging Platforms
Most mission-critical systems have distributed elements or are entirely distributed, resulting in a number of challenges: performance, scalability, reliability,...
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Retrofit your Java App with a Reactive Flow Pipeline
Legacy applications that were developed in bygone days may appear to be close to unsalvageable. In reality, these applications are still running in production ...
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Architecture Foundations: Styles & Patterns (2021)
A key building block for burgeoning software architects is understanding and applying software architecture styles and patterns. This session covers basic appli...
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How Green Was My Delusion: Perception and Reality in UX
Deep into digital era, most sites, apps, and software are still hard to use and designed poorly. Some are totally maddening. Why? Before you answer, let me tell...
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Databases in the Microservices World
Web technologies have come leaps and bounds. But are you still using the tired old database from last generation? Let’s look at the methodology of microservices...
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Testing Microservices and Evolving APIs with Consumer Driven Contracts
Many modern architectural styles, such as microservices and event-driven architectures - promote loosely coupled components connected by event-streams or API ca...
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Distributed Locking in Kubernetes
Some say that there is no such thing as "distributed lock". Still, sooner or later, chances are you will encounter a problem that only one of your application r...
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You're on Mute! WebRTC and our Lives on Screen
WebRTC is the technology that powers video calls in browsers. What you might not know are all the features WebRTC unlocks for the web. In this talk we'll ta...
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Options Galore to Get from Source Code to Container
A typical workflow in a modern software dev project can look like: Build code, put built artifact into container image, put container image into registry, deplo...
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Profiling JavaScript Like A Pro
As front-end developers we strive to build fast and fluid web apps. But how can you find performance bottlenecks or memory leaks? How do you profile a web app? ...
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Cloud Anatomy 101: Breaking Down Cloud-native
Getting to grips with cloud-native is as vital to your application evolution as breathing is to the body. However, with this term encompassing so many technolog...
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Who's the Boss? How Tech Managers Can Work Well with Product
There exists a tension between Engineering Management and Product Management. In a good team, this is expected and provides the combination of stability and hea...
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Hosting Fonts? Good Luck!
In the beginning was The Word. Then there was Google Fonts Directory. And the Web was so happy to be able to use an alternative to sans-serif that it turned ev...
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Metrics Mania. Obsession with Measurement can Harm our Teams
We love numbers, don’t we? If we are good managers, it’s natural that we want our people and our teams to get better. Incremental improvement is the mantra of a...
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Shaping Teams to Thrive: a Few Lessons I Learned Along the Way
Over the last 35+ years, Bill Scott has had a wide range of experience in engineering, product, and design roles. These span from writing one of the first games...
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Leveraging Autonomous Agents on the Web
There's lots of talk about autonomous bots but how can they be applied to common enterprise problems? Come to this session to learn more.
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Domain to Architecture Isomorphism
Isomorphism is a mathematical term that determines if two structures are equal in shape. It is derived from the Greek terms Isos (meaning “equal”) and morphe (m...
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Spring Boot Omakase: A Fast-paced "Chef’s Choice" Dive into Fun & Useful Topics!
Spring Boot has revolutionized the Java space and continues to do so, evolving constantly to increase developers' superpowers and advance the state of produ...
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NodeJS, ML, K8s and Unethical Face Recognition
How nice would it be to be able to remember everyone’s name? What if you could just walk into a room and know everyone’s Twitter handle? What if you could give ...
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An Engineering Team Where Everyone is a Leader
Building a strong engineering culture can be a daunting, but very rewarding undertaking. It requires all members of a team to develop leadership skills as they ...
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Adventures in Javascript Machine Learning
AI/ML has revolutionized the world of what is possible, and TensorFlow.js is growing the domain of where we can bring these new capabilities. Google implemented...
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Modern Android Development
The process and preferred practices for developing Android apps changed dramatically over the past few years. Google now recommends Kotlin as a development lang...
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Learning To Code In Functional Style with Java
Functional style of programming was introduced in Java 8. Many organizations are still transitioning to Java 8 and more so, embracing the functional style. If y...
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Cosmic Full-Stack: a Blazor, ML.NET, and CosmosDB Mashup
Are you ready to count down to liftoff? In this session, we test the limits of the .NET stack in an incredible mission to build BlazePort, a futuristic ride sha...
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Contract-Driven API Development with OpenAPI Specification
We've all seen APIs that are hard to work with: incomplete and at places inaccurate documentation, non-standard design choices, inconsistent patterns across...
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Service Mess to Service Mesh
In our quest to secure all the things, do we jump in too quickly? We’ll use Istio and Linkerd as example service meshes, and look at the features we would expec...
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Make me Pretty
According to research, you’re going to spend 10% more time looking at my speaker profile than reading my Bio, which is a little bit creepy. 65% of the populati...
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Completing the Beyond SQL Story with Search
Do you automatically reach for a relational database for your application’s data needs? There is an unspoken impedance mismatch between expected rates of maturi...
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Supercharge the Speed of your App with these PWAs Secrets!
Let’s take a deep dive into PWAs and shift our focus on web performance! In this talk, I will tell you the big secrets on how to improve the speed of your apps ...
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Managing Kubernetes Clusters as Cattle with Project Syn
Project Syn is a set of 100% open source tools helping to securely manage a fleet of Kubernetes clusters. It brings a hierarchical configuration management base...
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Live Hacking: Breaking into your Web App
Open source modules are undoubtedly awesome. However, they also represent an undeniable and massive risk. You’re introducing someone else’s code into your syste...
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Is a Secured (Web) App Possible?
Hear about the ZKA pattern? Zero Knowledge stands for a pattern where no-one but the owner is aware of the content of the data. It's mainly in use in the Ze...
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Real-Time Apps with SignalR
SignalR is cool piece of tech that powers real-time communications and is one the latest additions to the ASP.NET Core family. Yes, SignalR is open source and e...
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What Does Cloud-native Mean Anyway?
For the past few years the terms cloud-native and microservice architecture have been used interchangeably. However recently people have questioned whether micr...
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Revitalising the Web - The Importance of Web Performance
With the growth of the web, websites have grown as well. Unfortunately, this growth is not always a positive one, especially when it comes to load times. In tod...
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Simple Tweaks to Get the Most Out of your JVM
Many developers don’t think about the JVM level when creating applications. It is something that just simply works. Now more applications are becoming cloud-nat...
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Spring and Kotlin: A Winning Combination
Most developers are aware that Kotlin is the language of choice for Android applications, it can also be used effectively on the server side. The Spring Framewo...
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A Few New Cool Features in Modern Java
With the new release cadence, programmers can enjoy new features at a much faster rate. Java has been evolving rapidly, but in a responsible manner. While some ...
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Spring For Architects
With globally distributed applications (and teams!) the job of software architect isn’t getting any easier; applications are growing increasingly complex and ar...
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Lambdas, Functions, Clouds, Oh My
Cloud functions are hip; they provide a way to deploy stateless independent chunks of code that use resources on-demand. Amazon Web Services’ Lambdas were the f...
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One Source to Rule them All
We live in a world of applications. There’s a constant tug-of-war between wanting to maintain only one source code versus our app having a home everywhere our u...
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Teaching through Code Review
Code reviews are often focused solely on quality control. The reviewer protecting their main git branch from badly formatted, not properly tested code that can ...
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Javascript The Fascinating Parts
JavaScript is no longer that scary nasty language. There are so many wonderful features in the modern versions of this language that I can't stop praising i...
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Cloud Native Middleware as a Programming Language
The Ballerina programming language aims at fulfilling the technological requirements of a cloud-native middleware platform. This consists of deployment, communi...
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Data Science with Kotlin and Zeppelin
The world of Data Science heavily uses Python and Python libraries such as NumPy and Pandas. While Python is a great platform, it does have some drawbacks - one...
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Effective Kubernetes for Cloud Native Java Developers
There are several key techniques to understand while using Kubernetes with Java EE, Jakarta EE and MicroProfile applications. Examples include: How Kubernete...
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How to Measure "Friction" in Software Development
Since the dawn of software development, we've struggled with a huge disconnect between the management world and the engineering world. We try to explain our...
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ELK Stack - All You Need for Search In Your Applications
Are you interested in learning aboout a popular search engine? Elasticsearch is a distributed, open-source search and analytics engine for all types of data, in...
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Cypress: Your Automated Sous Chef
Have you ever wanted to refactor mercilessly but didn’t want to break the fragile tower? Or have you ever pushed to production only to spend the next few days c...
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JavaScript Apps Go Intl
In a connected, global world there are a surprising number of problems with formatting text for our users. Did you know how many different ways there are to for...
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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Caching Patterns
When your application starts slowing down, the reason is probably a bottleneck somewhere in the execution chain. Sometimes, this bottleneck is due to a bug. Som...
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Probabilistic Data Structures with Redis Bloom
Probabilistic Data Structures are the big data, cloud era, and streaming solution to efficiently storing counts. Especially when you are paying somebody else fo...
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Making Kubernetes How We Build Things
It’s day 2. The corporate k8s cluster is humming. Everything works perfectly in a local environment, but how do you connect the wires? Your first few steps in K...
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The JSON Evolution with SQL Database
The old school lesson "do not store large objects into database" is now really deprecated. In this session we see how a (used-to-be-a) relation database like Az...
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Digital Transformation through GitOps and Infrastructure as Code
Software delivery teams are looking to increase speed of innovation without compromising quality. There are many approaches but when you break it down, all road...
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A Primer on Distributed Tracing and Jaeger OSS
Distributed tracing has been gaining a lot of attention in the monitoring and observability space. In a recent survey, the number of DevOps practitioners report...
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Journey to the Cloud - a Re-platforming Story
Legacy modernisation has many flavours to it. Amazon popularised the 6Rs model(Repurchase, Re-host, Re-platform, Re-factor and Retire, Retain) as a framework to...
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Automation Strategies in Microservices Architecture
To ensure a good automated checks strategy without ending up with an inverted pyramid, we need to become more technical, we need to understand the architecture ...
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Technical Excellence in Technical Leadership
What does it mean to be a technical leader? There is engrossing evidence that technical workers want leaders who are strong technologists, leaders they believe ...
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Replicating Prod on your Laptop using the Magic of Container
Containers are an amazing technology that is revolutionising how we do computing in the modern age. 5 years ago, people were starting to use Docker and realisin...
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Designing in the World of Microservices: The Emphasis on Bounded Context
Many developers around the world have jumped on the Microservices bandwagon. Several organizations, in the past and also in the present, have built around monol...
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The Use of Machine Learning in Offensive Cybersecurity Applications
Offensive cybersecurity operations are a part of nation-state conflicts. There are also situations wherein law enforcement may use offensive operations to breac...
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RESTful Web Microservices
Come to this session to learn an essential set of patterns/recipes for applying RESTful practices to create global-scale microservices that can interact. More d...
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Mastering Technical Presentations By Example
Many burgeoning technologists unhappily discover that, while necessary, technical skills alone do not a successful architect make. It doesn't matter how goo...
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Introduction to Zero Trust Security
How do you continuously control, secure, audit, and observe communication between services, machines, and users ? How can you do this consistently across multip...
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Make a Date with Java
This talk will cover the concepts of time, time-zones, durations and so on, and discuss shortfalls in how these are handled in legacy systems. We will investiga...
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Functional Programming in Java, Groovy, and Kotlin
See how features of functional programming are implemented in three different JVM-based languages. Examples include how lambda expressions, method references, a...
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Javascript Promises vs async-await
The past of JavaScript was filled with callback hell. Promises gave a much needed relief to that, but resulted in a paradigm shift. While promises are powerful,...
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Exploring Stateful Microservices Built with Open Liberty in Kubernetes
How does one choose to architect a system that has a Microservice / REST API endpoints? There are many solutions out there. Some are better than others. Shou...
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Top 10 Metrics for Successful DevSecOps Projects
Metrics are essential to measuring success for DevOps. In this talk, we will explore different dimensions and how to measure the metrics and apply quality gates...
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The Definitive Deep Dive into the .git Folder
What’s in the .git folder? How are commits stored? How do branches work? We’ll dive deep into the objects folder, unpack commits, look at the types of DAG nodes...
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Typesense: an OSS Alternative to Algolia & ElasticSearch
For the longest time ElasticSearch and Solr were the primary options to build site and app search. Along came Algolia in 2012 with a SaaS instant search engine....
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Automatic Microservices Observability with Open-Source Progr
Modern applications are increasingly becoming more of a distributed computing problem. With the availability of feature rich cloud services, our solutions are i...
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JavaScript Tests in Node, the Browser, and CI
Good software practices don’t end just because you’re building a thick client in the browser. The JavaScript community is a flourishing boutique of high-quality...
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DevOps During COVID-19 - What Did We Learn?
It's fair to say that the coronavirus pandemic changed the way we work for good. In all of that, how did DevOps fare? We talk all the time about 'the ne...
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The Swag of Performance Testing
“The Swag of Performance Testing” shows 4 easy ways to create test suites with different open source tools. From the OpenAPI interface we will create a performa...
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Angular Dependency Injection In-Depth
The dependency injection mechanism in Angular is simple yet powerful. In this session, we learn how to get the most out of the Angular injector by understanding...
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Using TensorFlow for Performing Deep Learning at the Edge
By 2025, it is estimated that there will be 21 Billion IoT devices in the entire world. With the advancement of artificial intelligence and IoT, there will be a...
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Lessons in Porting PiggyMetrics from Spring Boot to MicroProfile
PiggyMetrics is a popular open source end-to-end sample which demonstrates the use of Spring Boot and Spring Cloud features in a microservices-style application...
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Video Killed My Data Plan: Delivering Video that Doesn't Break the Web
Video is one of the fastest growing mediums on the web and in mobile applications. Video files have been shown to increase engagement, and can be a great way to...
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