Build Stuff 2019
2019-11-13..2019-11-15
Vilnius, Lithuania
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Hands on learning experience for non-technical people | Markus Leutwyler | 37m |
Claims that non-technical people can build a working AI robot from scratch and learn by doing, with a concrete pipeline: train virtual agents with… | ||
| Graal: Using JVM libraries in Node.js | Laurynas Lubys | 46m |
GraalVM + Truffle lets Node run JVM libraries by starting Node with --jvm and exposing a global Java object; synchronous Java calls work directly but block the… | ||
| Technically Speaking: improve your code with documentation | Alexandra White | 52m |
Argues that integrating docs into development prevents rework and dozens of support emails, describes a practical workflow used at WNET and Google: write while… | ||
| I'm Going To Make You Stop Hating CSS | Lemon Nolastname | 56m |
Opens with a breakdancing video, then demonstrates concrete CSS fixes: solves text clipping by combining overflow rules and word-break, explains position vs… | ||
| Elm and Elmish for Backendish | Vagif Abilov | 45m |
Back-end teams produce a working internal event-journal web UI in a few days using F# compiled to JS, Azure Table/Blob storage and an Azure Function front end… | ||
| Continuous Delivery for Legacy Code | Richard Gross | 49m |
A monolith of 5 million lines across Classic ASP, .NET, VBScript, VBA, JavaScript, T‑SQL and PL‑SQL arrives with no VCS, deployments by copy‑paste, and roughly… | ||
| Design for Non-Designers from a Non Designer | Jay Harris | 54m |
Coder-focused rules for making interfaces actually usable: follow the six fundamentals—unity, contrast, alignment, proximity, hierarchy and white space—and… | ||
| Leadership Starts with Listening - Amplify Your Impact | Heidi Helfand | 37m |
Concrete claim: focused listening turns people into owners and creates more leaders rather than order followers. The talk teaches a repeatable coaching stack… | ||
| OpenShift: a Kubernetes Story in an Enterprise Environment | Simonas Kareiva | 41m |
Bank IT replaces VMware and ServiceNow VMs with OpenShift 3.4 in production and a custom private‑cloud (Python/Django REST) that exposes an Open Service Broker… | ||
| Our journey to AWS. | Arvydas Zajančkauskis | 50m |
Our journey in making the AWS Public Cloud our own playground was a combination of tough days full of disappointments and cool, exciting days unwrapping the… | ||
| The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Your Dev Team | Gabby Spurling | 41m |
Connects Marie Kondo’s method to concrete engineering fixes: claims 886 million meetings happen daily and estimates 31 million hours wasted on ineffective… | ||
| Centralized Logging Patterns | Philipp Krenn | 47m |
Demonstrations use the Elastic Stack with Beats, Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana to show four concrete patterns: Parse (grok rules to extract fields… | ||
| From Zero to Hero with several years of Anguish - Bursting through barriers | Debbie O'Brien | 48m |
A personal journey of beating impostor syndrome records concrete steps: learns React via OpenClassrooms and Treehouse with a weekly mentor, completes nine… | ||
| Wardley Maps for Your Microservices Journey | Susanne Kaiser | 45m |
Wardley Maps show which microservice parts to build, buy or outsource by plotting user-facing components, data stores, message brokers and orchestration on an… | ||
| Lessons learned working remotely across timezones | Christian Horsdal Gammelgaard | 50m |
Fifteen months working across 6–9 time zones leads to concrete changes: introduces pull requests, dashboards and automation, and builds a separate CI that runs… | ||
| DIY Async Message Pump: Lessons from the trenches | Daniel Marbach | 52m |
Built an async .NET message pump that hooks to MSMQ, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, SQS, Kafka and SQL Server and surfaces concrete failures: unbounded… | ||
| Augmented Reality on the Web | Alina Karpelceva | 47m |
Shows working browser AR built with AR.js and A-Frame: marker-based planets and a custom Build Stuff logo imported from Blender, using downloadable .pat… | ||
| Event Sourcing for the Cloud Developer | Chris Condron | 52m |
Argues that event sourcing is a storage choice separate from messaging and shows concrete patterns: writers are single stream per writer state machines that… | ||
| This just happened! Using events in your apps | Glenn F. Henriksen | 51m |
Argues that using events reduces hard coupling and shows a working Azure stack: Event Grid, Event Hub and Service Bus with demos sending blob-created events… | ||
| How I became Agile when it came to mental health | Maryam Umar | 39m |
A perfectionist tester builds a mini Personal Development Life Cycle and starts treating mental health like sprint work with a tangible backlog: exercise… | ||
| Infrastructure as Code with Terraform on Azure | Tom Harvey | 54m |
Practical demo of Terraform on Azure showing actual commands and workflows: terraform init/plan/apply/destroy, provider pinning (example Azure provider… | ||
| Improving Observability of Distributed Systems | David Ostrovsky | 49m |
A concrete playbook for turning a startup stack into an observable system: add trace ID in logs to correlate multi-service failures, collect the four golden… | ||
| Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate's Implementation | Jimmy Bogard | 52m |
Implements Pat Helland’s “life beyond distributed transactions” with concrete code using Azure Cosmos DB (demo via emulator), RabbitMQ and the outbox pattern… | ||
| Advanced Mixed Reality Development and Best Practices | Rene Schulte | 50m |
Top 10 development checklist focused on practical wins: use remote rendering (Unity/Unreal) to offload GPU-heavy scenes, reduce CAD meshes with Simplygon/Pixyz… | ||
| Building Realtime Serverless APIs with GraphQL | Jonathan Mills | 50m |
Builds a GraphQL layer over an existing Star Wars REST API using Apollo Server and shows subscriptions over WebSockets; demo reduces dozens of per-page REST… | ||
| Modern Policy Management Putting responsibility where it belongs | Mike Ensor | 41m |
Argues that policy must be automated and moved into the CI/CD pipeline, showing three live demos: rejecting an out-of-region Terraform plan via JSON-ified… | ||
| The Art of Code | Dylan Beattie | 01h 01m |
Starts from concrete demos and tools: Conway’s Game of Life shows a glider gun every 27 generations and an implemented NAND gate built from eaters and gliders… | ||
| The Dark Side of Events | Vladik Khononov | 44m |
Catalogues concrete failures and fixes when events become coupling: duplicated projection logic across subscribers, unreliable delivery and ordering, and a… | ||
| How shit works: TCP/IP | Tomer Gabel | 53m |
Explains how TCP creates a point-to-point bi-directional byte stream on top of IP using a three-way handshake, measures RTT for adaptive timers, and enforces… | ||
| What You Need to Know About Open Source - Trust Me, I'm a Lawyer | Jeff Strauss | 48m |
Covers practical license choices and concrete risks: walks through MIT/BSD permissive versus Apache 2.0 patent grant and its automatic termination “poison… | ||
| Quantum Computing: myths and reality | Alexander Laptev | 46m |
Shows a working quantum supremacy demo that prepares a superposition over all inputs and queries an oracle function so one quantum circuit samples a hard… | ||
| How to code music? | Laura Silvanavičiūtė | 37m |
Demonstrates concrete ways to generate sound from code: uses Gibber to create oscillators, synths and sample-based instruments, shows a mysterious bug where… | ||
| Five Azure Services Every Developer Should Know | Tibi Covaci | 51m |
A simple recipe app (Angular front end, .NET Core 3.0 backend) gets migrated live: a 22 MB zip compiles and uploads in under a minute to an App Service (S1… | ||
| Open heart surgery on Nginx - changing configuration without reloading | Kipras Mancevicius | 32m |
Demonstrates a patch that lets Nginx apply a single vhost change without a full reload by running the normal config parser at runtime and propagating updates… | ||
| Event Driven Collaboration | Ian Cooper | 49m |
Explains why distributed service data must be treated as data on the inside vs data on the outside and gives two concrete integration patterns: either emit… | ||
| Is There A Needle In The Haystack? Using Python To Narrow Down The Search For Life I | Artur, Lucas | 43m |
Argues that life-search shrinks dramatically by selecting stars in long-lived core-rotation zones rather than every disk star, using the Gaia catalog (∼1… | ||
| Garbage collection for the humans | Dogan Ersoz | 52m |
Survey of JVM garbage collectors with concrete tradeoffs: mark‑and‑sweep and generational layout (Eden/survivor/old) explain promotion and premature promotion… | ||
| Drinking a river of IoT data with Akka.NET | Hannes Lowette | 59m |
Demonstrates an Akka.NET architecture that turns each meter into a device-per-actor model, ingests events from IoT Hub / Event Hub via an App Service proxy… | ||
| AI in the battle against fakes | Henk Boelman | 48m |
A solution identifies counterfeit electronics from a single smartphone photo by combining object detection (icon/logo cropping) with a logo classifier exported… | ||
| Keeping up to date in a bespoke software development world | Laurynas Riauba | 47m |
Argues that upgrading often hinges on framework and plugin compatibility not feature desire: Spring/Spring Security and Hibernate churn causes the hardest… | ||
| Do proper monoliths before you do microservices! | Jan de Vries | 06m |
Claim: build a proper monolith first and only move to microservices when you truly need global scale. Most real projects have 2 to 8 development teams and are… | ||
| End-to-end Purescript with Erlang/OTP | Rob Ashton | 41m |
Claim: PureScript compiles to Erlang/BEAM so the same typed code runs front and back, producing .beam files that load into rebar3 builds and support hot code… | ||
| Strangling the Legacy with Kubernetes | Rein Remmel | 39m |
Case study of Fleet Complete shows concrete steps and numbers: teams standardize on Kubernetes on EKS, deploy with Flux gitops and Jenkins, expand deployments… | ||
| Easy Microservices with Kubernetes and Istio | Sendil Kumar N | 54m |
Shows a complete pipeline: JHipster generates a gateway plus three microservices (store gateway, product and invoice on MySQL, notification on MongoDB) and… | ||
| Who's your user? OpenID from the ground-up | Johannes Brodwall | 54m |
Shows a working Java/Azure demo app that performs the OAuth2 code flow with Google, Microsoft AD, Slack and a national Mobile ID, exchanging the redirect code… | ||
| Knitted Disruption | Kris Howard | 46m |
Crowdsourced hundreds of hand‑knit photos, labeled with SageMaker Ground Truth and trained with SageMaker image classifiers, then deployed behind a React front… | ||
| Socio-Technical Modeling as a Practice | Michael Feathers | 43m |
Argues that code, people and tools must be modeled together using Conway's Law and Actor-Network ideas, showing concrete patterns: a shared testing framework… | ||
| Why the Next Five Years Will Be About Languages | Ted Neward | 59m |
Argues that the next five years center on new languages because per-core CPU speed plateaus push parallelism, virtual machines (JVM/CLR/WebAssembly) remove… | ||
| Full Stack Development: What Does It Really Mean? | Kevlin Henney | 54m |
Search of LinkedIn shows ~7000 “full stack” results and the talk reframes the phrase into concrete CS tools and gotchas: ADTs and stacks, Hoare triples and… | ||
| Demystifying User Management for Voice Apps | Heather Downing | 48m |
Explains how to link Amazon and Google Assistant users to an existing database using OAuth/OpenID Connect and a hosted identity provider (Octa), showing a… | ||
| 12 Factors of Pain and Suffering | Randall Degges | 41m |
A developer recounts concrete failures and fixes: copying one codebase into 20+ spam sites instead of templatizing it, forgetting to install optipng jpegoptim… | ||
| Azure Blueprints | Sjoukje Zaal | 48m |
Shows how Azure AD B2C secures custom apps by wiring registered web apps to user flows and custom policies, using Azure Functions to write opt‑in marketing… | ||
| Small company serving the giant | Domininkas Virbickas | 29m |
Small startup Kuji AI runs a network-security engine deployed in about 20 million homes and observing roughly 500 million devices to block malicious flows… | ||
| Fast Track to World-Class Service | Saulius Paukštys | 45m |
Concrete rules to get world-class service: every team member is cross-functional so anyone can pick up any task; always give a numeric estimate instead of… | ||
| Improve your thinking, improve your software | Rachel Appel | 55m |
Argues that disciplined, evidence‑based thinking improves product decisions and reduces costly rework by surfacing assumptions, biases, and fallacies. Gives… | ||
| Moving Fast at Scale | Randy Shoup | 48m |
Research-backed approach: form small cross-functional teams aligned to clear business problems, use A/B tests and machine-learned ranking to iterate, and apply… | ||
| Futurology for Developers | Mark Rendle | 52m |
Starts from a Tandon 286 and Wyse 60 in 1989 and shows concrete tech milestones, hardware and costs: Apple A12X (2.5 GHz, 8 cores, ~10B transistors), AMD… | ||
| Talking with Tech Leads | Patrick Kua | 47m |
Claim: the tech lead role is a role change, not a promotion, and requires shifting from maker to multiplier work. Concrete guidance: spend about 30% coding… | ||
| Surviving Microservices | Michele Leroux Bustamante | 52m |
Starts with a small MVP that typically takes nine months for an MVP and about ten services to prove patterns: API contract-first with OpenAPI, CI/CD pipelines… | ||
| Scale, Microservices and Flow | James Lewis | 48m |
Argues that universal scaling laws from the Santa Fe Institute explain why hierarchies slow organisms and companies (metabolic-rate exponent 3/4), why listed… | ||
| Let me handle that for you... Why you need a reverse proxy in your architecture | Elton Stoneman | 45m |
Explains why a single public reverse proxy reduces attack surface and moves SSL, compression, routing, health checks and caching out of app code, with live… | ||
| Functional UI, Functional Apps | Don Syme | 43m |
Claims that functional UI via Model-View-Update is practical: F# + Fable-Elmish and the Fabulous framework produce real cross‑platform apps (iOS, Android, GTK… | ||
| Living with your Legacy | Julie Lerman | 59m |
Lots of legacy systems still run critical business workloads: examples include VB6 and FoxPro 2.6 and enterprises with COBOL on DB2 (industry estimate ~200… | ||
| 5 Tips for Cultivating EQ in the Workplace | Christina Aldan | 52m |
Claims emotional intelligence is learnable via neuroplasticity and practice, not innate, and that cultivating it cuts stress, improves relationships and team… | ||
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