Consultant, Trainer, Writer, Editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Code?

In this session, Kevlin will explore what we do and do not mean by code, and the consequences for development and our systems. Some developers do not consider their unit tests to be proper code, because unit tests are not shipped with the software. On the other hand, many developers do not consider configuration to be code, even though it is shipped with the software, defines how the software executes and is written in a formal notation. And imagine deploying a system with millions and millions of configuration parameters that none of the developers understood or knew how to test properly? Imagine machine learning. This talk is a journey into code, a journey into testing, a journey into quality and a journey into keeping software soft. There's no need to make it harder than it already is.

VP Engineering and Chief Architect @ eBay, ex-Director of Engineering @ Google

Improving eBay's Development Velocity

This session outlines eBay’s efforts towards better, faster, safer, and continious software delivery. You'll learn about measuring software delivery, reducing waiting times and improving flow, breaking down silos, removing impediments, embedding experts directly in product teams, modernizing architecture, and much more! This session will provide actionable insights for other organizations going through similar journeys.

Solution Architect, Developer and Mentor at Bottega IT Minds, ex-Head of Software Development @ 4Finance

Simple and Powerful Things That Work for Me

There's a surprising lot of best practices that are irrelevant in practice. There are also those that do not sound like much, but I use them every single day and cannot imagine how I would deal without them. This talk is about those silent game-changers. I'll talk about fixing bugs with a scientific method, how 7 years of implementing and operating microservices changed my observability practices, and how higher-order functions allowed me to not only express what's important, but also put emphasis on it. And then we'll talk a bit about neuroscience and how to deal with your own head. Perhaps it will work for you as well.

Software Craftsman, Java Champion, and Independent Technical Trainer

The Secrets of the Fastest Java Developers on Earth

In this session, you’ll learn a lot of hands-on tricks that will skyrocket your Java coding speed, after just several days of practice. Writing, editing, navigating and refactoring code faster will let you focus on your goals and allow you to experiment various design alternatives without wasting precious time. In this talk I’ll demonstrate some the best tricks of IntelliJ (community included): Advanced Auto-Completion: over-dot, TAB, type-aware, statics, generating boilerplate, Live Templates and Postfix Expansion, Essential quickfixes and inspections, Multi-cursor, Statement Completion, Navigating Code like a Pro, Java Streams support, and many more, all curated with the help of many nice JetBrains people.

Principal Technologist @ VMWare, Trainer @ Bottega IT Minds, DZone's Most-Valuable Blogger

Clean Code: Eternal Principles

In this talk we will cover: thinking in terms of abstractions, placing the right language in right places, fighting with cognitive load and biases, what kinds of coupling can we see and which one is the worst, how to overcome the fear of having many small classes, hot to explain cohesion to a junior developer and more. Those evergreen rules can help you become more efficient and persuasive at work.

Consultant, Trainer, Author of Running Serverless, Specification by Example, Impact Mapping, Founder of Narakeet

Maximum Impact, Minimum Effort

A big government IT project delivered two years ahead of schedule. A fraud detection initiative saving tens of millions more than predicted. An app that helped a city rebuild faster after a major disaster and save ten times more money than expected. Stories like these are very uncommon, even with all the advancements the software industry made in the last few decades. In this talk, Gojko will present how very successful teams create big impacts with minimum effort. You'll get practical, actionable ideas that you can use immediately in your work.

Founder @ Agile Developer, Author of Practices of an Agile Developer, Programming Concurrency on the JVM, Functional Programming in Java

Reasons and Ways to Improve Code Quality

As programmers we crank out code day in and day out. In the pressure to deliver faster and to keep up with change, it's easy to forget about code quality. Over time, we may not even realize how much the code has deteriorated except that we feel the pain moving forward, as with each line of code we touch gets harder and slower to change. We will discuss the reasons to maintain good quality code and ways in which we, each one of us, can be part of creating quality code.

Head of Developer Relations @ Checkly, Teaching @CSSclasses, Maintaining @perf_tooling

Everything You Should Know About Web Development in 2022

Frontend and JavaScript technologies are moving fast. So fast that it's always hard to keep track of all the new things that are coming up. This talk will show new tools, workflows, ways to develop and give advice on how to stay up to date.

Software Craftsman and Founder @ Codurance, Author of The Software Craftsman

Minimum Viable Professional

In this session, together with Sandro we'll discuss hard and soft skills that every software craftsperson needs and how can we nurture those skills independently, at work, and as a community.

Founder @ ReactJS Consulting, Software Developer, Author, Speaker, Consultant, Teacher

The 7 Pillar Developer: A Holistic Approach to Building an Exceptional Career

As developers, we focus on code. Yet mastering syntax alone isn't sufficient. Our behaviors away from the keyboard profoundly effect our impact and career satisfaction. So, to dramatically expand our potential as developers, we must reconsider our behaviors as a humans. In this story-oriented session, we'll explore seven surprisingly relevant facets of life that profoundly impact our software quality.

Chief Architect @ Headspring, Microsoft MVP, Creator of AutoMapper

Effective Microservice Communication and Conversation Patterns

Orchestration or Choreography? Sagas or process manager? REST, RPC or Events? Are we just making this all up as we go along? Once we move away from a single process to many services and processes, we immediately hit the problem that our services need to communicate with each other. The architect mandated REST! But then nothing worked in production. Then came events! And nothing ever completed. In this talk we'll look at the problem from a holistic perspective - take the fundamental property of autonomy for any microservice-based architecture, and design how services should communicate so that they can still achieve their purpose in the world. We'll cover basic communication patterns, where we run into problems with them, and how advanced conversational patterns can help. Finally, we'll look at some real-world scenarios for designing complex coordination and where conversation patterns can retain our autonomy and loose coupling.

Principal Developer Evangelist @ Pluralsight, Microsoft MVP

Practical Leadership for Software Developers

Regardless of the technology you know, regardless of the job title you have, you have amazing potential to impact your workplace, community, and beyond. In this talk, I’ll share a few candid stories of my career failures… I mean… learning opportunities. We’ll start by debunking the myth that leadership == management. Next, we’ll talk about some the attributes, behaviors and skills of good leaders. Last, we’ll cover some practical steps and resources to accelerate your journey. You’ll walk away with some essential leadership skills I believe anyone can develop, and a good dose of encouragement to be more awesome!

Master Craftsman, Author of Clean Code, Clean Architecture, The Clean Coder, and Clean Agile

Clean Architecture – A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure

By applying universal rules of software architecture, you can dramatically improve developer productivity throughout the life of any software system. Now, building upon the success of his best-selling books Clean Code and The Clean Coder, legendary software craftsman Robert C. Martin reveals those rules and helps you apply them.

Software Architect, F# Trainer, Author of Domain Modeling Made Functional

Domain Modeling Made Functional

Statically typed functional programming languages encourage a very different way of thinking about types. The type system is your friend, not an annoyance, and can be used in many ways that might not be familiar to OO programmers. Types can be used to represent the domain in a fine-grained, self documenting way. And in many cases, types can even be used to encode business rules so that you literally cannot create incorrect code. You can then use the static type checking almost as an instant unit test — making sure that your code is correct at compile time. In this talk, we'll look at some of the ways you can use types as part of a domain driven design process, with some simple real world examples in F#. No jargon, no maths, and no prior F# experience necessary.

Author of Lean Software Development, Implementing Lean Software Development, Leading Lean Software Development, and The Lean Mindset

The Future of Software Engineering

Twenty years ago Google was struggling to search the vast amount of data in the web, while Amazon was struggling to move an increasing volume of transactions through its monolithic architecture. Their solutions broke new ground in software engineering even as they enabled the companies to thrive. Creative approaches to digital technology have been fundamental in enabling the massive scale and incredible speed of today’s digital giants. More than that, they are at the core of every successful digital transformation. This talk will discuss how software engineering has been changed by the scale and speed required of digital companies in the past, now, and in the future.

Software Coach, Mentor and Consultant, TDD Trainer tdd.training

Unlocking the Awesome Power of Refactoring

Many programmers get stuck when they try to learn evolutionary design, particularly the refactoring part of it. It never seems to get easier, it never seems to go faster, and so it always seems safer to rip things apart and write them again. If you or someone you know feels stuck like this, then let's talk about why that happens and what to do about it. I'm pretty sure that will also provide a nice starting point for larger discussions about our work as programmers, how evolutionary design (TDD, refactoring) fits in, and anything else that we feel vaguely interested in talking about. My brain will be open.

Chief Product Officer @ Stealth Startup, ex-Engineering Leader @ Confluent, Author of Kafka: The Definitive Guide

Beyond Microservices: Streams, State and Scalability

Microservices have been a popular architecture choice for at least 5 years by now. Over these years we've adopted microservices architectures to ever growing set of use-cases and different development and deployment strategies. Lessons were learned and our ability to design, develop, deploy and operate microservices has improved. This presentation will give an opinionated view of how microservices evolved in the last few years, based on experience gained while working with companies using Apache Kafka to update their application architecture. We'll discuss the rise of API gateways, service mesh, state management and serverless architectures - what works well, and in which cases. We'll show real-world examples of how applications become more resilient and scalable when new patterns are introduced, and make sure to include caveats - because patterns are all about using them in the right context.

Senior Director of Engineering @ Google

Engineering Management: The Missing Manual

Managing engineers isn't hard once you have the missing instruction manual. In this talk, Dave will explain why people act the way they do and how you can navigate common (and uncommon) management situations with a few basic principles.

Creator of Extreme Programming and TDD, Author of TDD by Example and Extreme Programming Explained

Extreme Programming — 25 Years Later

Kent Beck invented Extreme Programming. In this session, he'll share what he got right, what he got wrong, and what he's still working on.

Principal Community Architect for Web Platform @ Microsoft, Blogger, Podcaster

Building Careers with Empathy

In this session, Scott Hanselman will share his career journey from a programmer to a Lead .NET Program Manager at Microsoft. Expect some (unusual) advice on skills and practices you need to succeed.

Principal @ Hollub Associates Ltd, Pluralsight Author, Author of Design Patterns in the Real World course

26 Heuristics for Effective Software Development

In this talk, you’ll learn how to leverage Allen Holub’s 26 rules of thumb to create a highly effective software organization. You’ll learn how to infuse real agility (as compared to “Agile”) into your organization.