All Things Open 2019
2019-10-13..2019-10-15
Raleigh, United States
[All Things Open 2019, All Things Open 2020, All Things Open 2021, All Things Open 2022, All Things Open 2023, All Things Open 2024, All Things Open 2025]
as the organisers put it
A conference exploring Open Source, Open Tech, and the Open Web happening in downtown Raleigh NC. Join 4,000+ technologists from all over the world!
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Open Office Culture Shift: How D&I Builds Better Tech Teams | Adrienne Smith, Brittany Glover | 16m |
Claims a clear target: 30% critical mass for minority voices to be heard, plus measurable steps — surveys, training on microaggressions and intersectionality… | ||
| Inclusion In Open Source: Closing panel discussion | Danese Cooper | 37m |
Discussion gives concrete claims and programs rather than vague ideals: bots polarize discourse with strategic exploitation of communication weaknesses, AI… | ||
| The Value Of Old People In Technology | James Schweitzer | 15m |
Claims include 56% involuntarily change jobs after 50 and 37% forced into retirement, with many rehired at roughly half pay; data also says workers over 50… | ||
| Discussion With The Producer | Jennifer Cloer | 30m |
Film asserts incremental progress and backs it with concrete cases: organization of women-in-tech groups inside companies, startups and nonprofits launched… | ||
| I Came Here to Meet 10 Black People: Normalizing my own presence in tech | Jocelyn Matthews | 13m |
Argues that a concrete tactic—set a numeric goal to meet ten Black people at events—normalizes presence and reduces isolation, using simple tools… | ||
| So You Want Your Daughter to be a Technologist…What now? | Navya Solkhan | 10m |
Built a mobile app called ripples that digitizes volunteer signups and wins the 2018 Congressional App Challenge for Triangle NC District 4 after reaching… | ||
| The Barriers to Entry I Face as a Mom in Tech | Nikema Prophet | 13m |
Claims that matter: lived examples of being a single low‑income disabled homeschooling parent and entry‑level developer with no degree; concrete barriers are… | ||
| Internationalize your Web App with GlobalizeJS | Alolita Sharma | 32m |
GlobalizeJS is a production-ready i18n library that uses Unicode CLDR and UTS 35 to serve hundreds of locales, ships CLDR JSON and provides IANA time zone data… | ||
| Navigating the React Ecosystem | Ben Ilegbodu | 50m |
Explains concrete choices: recommends learning React deeply, highlights that hooks replace classes (hooks land in 16.8) and shows a counter example, endorses… | ||
| Lightning Talk | Brian MacDonald | 12m |
A browser-based AR prototype at the Hirshhorn shows that AR can work without an app but only when content, tech and floor staff align: it uses browser-based AR… | ||
| Fireside Chat | Chris Wright | 21m |
Claims that Linux is now the ubiquitous platform — in phones TVs cars planes trains and servers — and that the ecosystem has industrialized around it, funded… | ||
| Exemplars, Laggards, & The Cautious: A Data-driven Look At High-velocity Software... | Derek E. Weeks | 45m |
Year‑long empirical analysis of 12,000 commercial teams and 36,000 open‑source projects shows concrete gains: 50% more commits, 2.4X faster releases, and 2.9X… | ||
| “Opening” Wall Street: Seizing The Opportunity Of Open Source In Fintech | Gabriele Columbro | 47m |
Claims that open source is practical for finance rest on measurable moves: the Fintech Open Source Foundation expands from Symphony to sector-wide projects… | ||
| Achievement Unlocked: Drive development, increase velocity, and write blissful... | Gleb Bahmutov | 45m |
Demo of Cypress dashboard with screenshots and video shows CI artifacts uploaded automatically and failing tests traced to exact commits; a single end-to-end… | ||
| Perceived Performance, And Why It Matters | Indira Pranabudi | 19m |
Claims that speeding the things users see matters more than total load time and cites a 40% abandonment rate at three seconds. Describes building a critical… | ||
| The Crazy Service Mesh Ecosystem | Lin Sun | 20m |
Overview enumerates actual implementations and tradeoffs and names concrete numbers and behaviors rather than vague benefits. Istio 1.x: ~300 companies ~400… | ||
| Avengers Assemble – The Thanos Incident | Matt Stratton | 39m |
A retrospective reconstructs the timeline leading to the Snap, names the contributing factors instead of hunting a single root cause, and shows concrete… | ||
| RIOT Showcase – Michael Thomas | Michael Thomas | 09m |
Claims that commercial AR runs about 10× the size of commercial VR, backing with IDC numbers, and cites concrete outcomes like 96% reduction in inspection time… | ||
| Everything as Code with Terraform | Rosemary Wang | 26m |
Shows Terraform core as a binary client that talks to independently compiled provider plugins so plugins are gRPC servers that define resource schemas; details… | ||
| Devops As Engineer Empowerment | Sam Handler | 16m |
A migration to kubernetes finishes but an engineer deploys and production 500s because of a missing env var, the rollback pipeline always pulls latest, the… | ||
| A Skeptic’s Intro To The Jamstack | Shawn Swyx Wang | 19m |
Argues that shipping prebuilt HTML/JS from a CDN plus selective serverless APIs (e.g. AWS Lambda serverless functions) reduces running‑server complexity and… | ||
| RIOT Showcase – Tom Snyder | Tom Snyder | 14m |
RIOT presents concrete outcomes: it claims over 1,200 companies represented, more than 500 jobs and $350M raised, and a growing accelerator now entering its… | ||
| Those Who Can Do Should Also Teach | Ali Spittel | 34m |
Explains concrete teaching mechanics: clear learning objectives, we do you do cycles (lecture, code‑along, group work, individual homework), checks for… | ||
| An Emerging Architecture Pattern for Agile Integration: Cell-based Architecture | Asanka Abeysinghe | 46m |
Proposes a concrete cell-based reference architecture that groups microservices and legacy components into deployable units, enforces all ingress through a… | ||
| Test Automation Without Assertions | Dr. Jeremias Roessler | 45m |
Claims that GUI tests work better without assertions using Golden Master / Approval Testing and names ApprovalsTest Jest and recheck. Demonstration shows a… | ||
| The Magical Living Room | Saron Yitbarek | 34m |
Builds a regular code newbie Twitter chat (weekday + added Sunday slot for time zones), launches a code newbie podcast and a CS miniseries, and runs a… | ||
| CI/CD for Machine Learning | Sasha Czarkowski Rosenbaum | 42m |
Argues that ML needs the same CI/CD rigor as software and shows a concrete pipeline: Kubeflow and Azure ML plus Azure DevOps and Docker build containers, train… | ||
| Hygieia – Building Observability Into Your Devops Workflow | Tyler Bell, Ragha Vema | 39m |
Hygieia claims a concrete outcome: a single open source dashboard that visualizes CI/CD health by ingesting tool APIs into a canonical model, storing data in… | ||
| Deep Learning at the Edge with TensorFlow.js | Va Barbosa | 31m |
TensorFlow.js runs pre-trained models in browser or Node.js, using WebGL for GPU math and tfjs-node uses native TensorFlow C lib for faster server-side… | ||
| Automated Testing JavaScript | Venkat Subramaniam | 45m |
Explains exactly how to get fast, reliable feedback: set up mocha and chai with karma to run tests in a browser, use a tiny canary test to verify tooling, stub… | ||
| Scaling Kafka in the Cloud | Heikki Nousiainen | 11m |
Operational details and outcomes matter: Aiven runs 500 managed Kafka clusters across six clouds and 80 regions, sized from 3 to 30 brokers, and automates… | ||
| Oops–I guess we’re full-stack developers now. | Chris Coyier | 20m |
Claim: front-end developers are effectively full-stack now because UI work absorbs routing, data fetching, and mutations. Examples: building an SVG icon… | ||
| The Thing About Burnout | Ashley McNamara | 13m |
Cites a Gallup study of 7,500 showing two thirds of employees report burnout and claims recovery often takes six months to two years, with digestive problems… | ||
| Building The Open Source Community We Want | Kent C. Dodds | 15m |
First pull request gets merged the next day after signing a CLA, illustrating that quick, gracious responses matter more than perfect code. Projects adopt the… | ||
| Amazon’s Commitment to Open Source | Arun Gupta | 16m |
Claims 90–95% of roadmap choices come from customer requests and lays out a four‑module open‑source workflow that includes a service‑to‑repository path… | ||
| GitOps, Jenkins X & the Future of CI/CD | Kohsuke Kawaguchi | 47m |
Argues that GitOps + Jenkins X replaces handcrafted CI/CD by automating cluster and pipeline setup and mapping Git state to Kubernetes via Helm Skaffold and… | ||
| Managing an Open Source Project | Kent C. Dodds | 39m |
Maintains over 100 packages and shows how automation and community keep that sustainable: automated releases with semantic-release, CI-backed tests (jest… | ||
| check presentation to Girls Who Code | 04m | |
IBM announces an open source community brands initiative and awards a $50,000 grant — reported as $25,000 cash and $25,000 in cloud credits — chosen by… | ||
| Decoding The Human Condition | Jono Bacon | 15m |
Claims that successful open source fuses great technology, open workflow, and meaningful, inclusive communities, and that a network of thousands of… | ||
| Machine Learning for All | Erica Stanley | 15m |
Claims a concrete outcome: classifies message intent by job function and seniority to surface leads that need human follow up. Implementation uses keyword… | ||
| Building High Performance Teams Across Cultures | Emma Wedekind | 17m |
Claim: cultural high vs low context differences change how teams interpret signals so processes must be explicit. Evidence: comparison that the U.S. ranks… | ||
| My Personal Journey Around Diversity | Kohsuke Kawaguchi | 18m |
Argues that diversity must be justified as business value not just social good, backing that with concrete moves: growth of the Jenkins plugin ecosystem by… | ||
| Does Tech Really Have A Pipeline Problem? Exploring Diversity & Inclusion | Tracy Lee | 21m |
Claims that diversity is stalled get tied to concrete failures: a consumer smartwatch fails on darker skin and ride services that enable attacks on women… | ||
| Diversity and Inclusion Best Practices: A panel discussion | Tracy Lee, Eriol Fox, Nithya A. Ruff | 53m |
Conference panel gives concrete signals: open source shows under 10% women and under 5% underrepresented minorities, companies start publishing diversity… | ||
| Lightning Chats on the JS Party Podcast | Jerod Santo | 57m |
Live recording of the JS Party podcast runs five-minute lightning chats where attendees take the mic for five minute dialogs about concrete projects and hiring… | ||
| FIreside Chat | John Wolpert, Jerry Cuomo, Joe Lubin | 50m |
Argument that open source blockchains diverge in 2015 then begin converging by 2019 with concrete outcomes and tools: Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric evolve… | ||
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