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Real-World Examples of FaaS
John Graham-Cumming talks about Cloudflare Workers, a new architecture launched by Cloudflare over a year ago, and looks at real world examples of what's being built using this architecture.
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Effective Ethics for Busy People
Kingsley Davies talks about the story of Good Tech Conference, a conference he founded in 2018, and gives some concrete tips & techniques for attendees to evolve to work and live in a more ethical way
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Becoming a Fully Buzzword Compliant Developer
Trisha Gee gives an irreverent overview of the current technical landscape and presents a survival guide for those who want to stay ahead in this turbulent industry.
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Functional Composition
Chris Ford shows how to make music starting with the basic building block of sound, the sine wave, and gradually accumulates abstractions culminating in a canon by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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How Condé Nast Succeeds by Buildling a Culture that Embraces Failure
Crystal Hirschorn talks about learnings found by building a culture that embraced failure through Chaos Engineering practices, what her teams have learned & adapted for their platforms at Condé Nast.
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Building Resilient Serverless Systems
John Chapin explains how to use serverless technologies and an infrastructure-as-code approach to architect, build, and operate large-scale systems that are resilient to vendor failures.
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Bringing JAMStack to the Enterprise
Jamund Ferguson talks about some of the challenges PayPal faced with their Node.js application servers, why they think the JAMStack approach improves performance for their apps and their developers.
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Cloud-Native Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka
Gwen Shapira discusses how data engineering requirements changed in a cloud-native world, and how the solutions change with them.
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Designing an Ethical Chatbot
Steve Worswick talks about the tips and tricks he uses when designing a chatbot to ensure it remains an ethical product and family-friendly without being corrupted by trolls and abusive users.
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Streaming Log Analytics with Kafka
Kresten Thorup discusses how and why they use Kafka internally and demos how they utilize it as a straightforward event-sourcing model for distributed deployments.
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Programming the Cloud with TypeScript
Luke Hoban reviews the unique benefits of applying programming languages in general, and TypeScript in particular, to the cloud infrastructure domain.
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Non-Traditional Moves into Tech: A Blessing and a Curse?
The panelists share their varied non-conventional routes into tech and discuss the pros and cons of choosing to move into a role in tech, what the benefits and pitfalls are for both them and employers