DevBreak 2021
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| DevBreak Festival by talent.io - 2021 Edition | 03m | |
A developer retreat in a 13th-century castle outside Paris gathers hundreds of developers and 35+ speakers for sessions on crypto, web accessibility and brand… | ||
| The Orbital Perspective | Ron Garan | 33m |
Everything is linked: an orbital perspective argues humanity must reorder priorities from economy→society→planet to planet→society→economy, because the… | ||
| Ever heard of VideoLAN..? The story of VLC | Jean-Baptiste Kempf | 39m |
Starts as a 1990s student demo to justify a new network and becomes VideoLAN, a nonprofit that runs VLC with 1 million downloads per day and about 500 million… | ||
| Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time and Money Matters | Adam Tornhill | 30m |
Argues technical debt becomes actionable by mining version control to find hotspots, combining change frequency with code health metrics to prioritize work… | ||
| At the crossroad of Crypto and Security: A dev insider view | Yacine Badiss | 35m |
Engineering account custody for institutional clients at Ledger: shows a concrete B2B feature that removes nonces from user-signed transactions so thousands of… | ||
| Writing Code for Humans | Lea verou | 53m |
Code acts as a user interface: APIs must make the common case fast and the rare case possible. Concrete examples: the ancient compareDocumentPosition bitmask… | ||
| How to build, manage and retain a killer team in Deep Learning | Renaud Allioux | 40m |
Preligens runs about 60 data scientists and the same number of engineers and claims that building a production ML org requires a dedicated data pipeline… | ||
| JAMstack is the future. I think. Maybe. | Tim Benniks | 30m |
Builds a working PWA called Strava Visualize using Vue.js, Azure Functions, Azure CDN, GitLab‑CI and the Strava API to test JAMstack end to end. Shows JAMstack… | ||
| SaaS Rebels - Why "on-premises" is Still Alive and Here to Stay | Arnaud Pichery | 31m |
Argues that enterprises keep on‑premises for data residency and security reasons and that delivering a true on‑prem product means more than packaging code… | ||
| State Machines with Kotlin Flow | Milos Marinkovic | 44m |
Implements a finite state machine atop Kotlin coroutines using MutableStateFlow as a hot, conflated shared flow that guarantees ordered, thread‑safe updates… | ||
| Large Language Models and the Future of AI | Connor Leahy | 27m |
Clear claim: simply scaling the same transformer architecture yields huge gains — GPT-2 (~1.5B parameters) versus a model ~two orders of magnitude larger… | ||
| How a tech startup planted (almost) 100 million trees | Christian Kroll | 24m |
Ecosia claims to have planted almost 100 million trees by routing search ad revenue into on‑the‑ground projects and measuring survival and biodiversity… | ||
| Let's Stop Making Each Other Feel Stupid | Clare Sudbery | 45m |
Argues that judging colleagues for gaps in knowledge fuels imposter syndrome and churn, and lists ten concrete harms plus fixes: stop laughing, drop jargon… | ||
| The culture of process | Cate Huston | 21m |
Argues that process becomes culture when it answers specific problems and shows measurable results, not theory. Gives concrete moves: a daily text standup to… | ||
| Building an OpenAPI from Typescript | Javi Velasco | 31m |
A team moves from ~40 JavaScript microservice repos into a TypeScript monorepo and builds a small framework that composes micro handlers, traces file… | ||
| There and Back Again - a Web Tale | Chris Liley | 36m |
Four case studies give concrete outcomes: WebAssembly as multi-language target becomes a consensus-driven, multi-implementation binary VM (avoiding Java-style… | ||
| Fearless Deploys on Friday Evening. Wait; what?! | Alex Fedorov | 38m |
Claims a team can safely deploy on a Friday evening by combining concrete practices: TDD with a goal of 100% test coverage, tight continuous refactoring… | ||
| No way, JOSE! Cryptography basics | Sam Bellen | 31m |
Clear, runnable specifics: hashing vs keyed hashing with SHA-256 producing a 256‑bit digest and HMAC‑SHA256 for integrity; signatures using RSA, EC and Ed25519… | ||
| Design patterns for application resiliency | Sebastien Stormacq | 35m |
Explains concrete resiliency tactics: deploy across multiple availability zones and regions to avoid single‑site failures; set sensible timeouts with… | ||
| Event-based, serverless app to broadcast real-time traffic alerts | F. Barthelet | 37m |
An event‑sourced, serverless system broadcasts transit alerts to Twitter, Facebook, SMS, email, Google Maps and third‑party apps by storing write‑once events… | ||
| Mobile Development, what’s wrong with you? | Jessy Hanzo | 34m |
Argues that choosing mobile tech is not about predicting the future but matching constraints and customers and gives concrete claims and examples: Airbus… | ||
| But... you're not Facebook | KITZE | 36m |
Claims that most front-end teams waste time chasing elite-scale optimizations and reinventing solved pieces: benchmarks from Facebook lead to blanket use of… | ||
| Beyond the Cockpit | Pierre Henri Chuet | 45m |
This talk was part of the 2021 edition of DevBreak festival by talent.io
"When you accept the responsibility of leading a pair of Rafale over enemy territory… | ||
| Developers and Companies, Work Anywhere, Be Protected | Fabien Salicis | 33m |
Company built an OpenWork/portage solution that legally payrolls freelancers in France and Belgium, onboards in 15–20 minutes, serves ~3,000 consultants with… | ||
| Cracking the hiring process | Benjamin Combourieu | 36m |
Based on hundreds of interviews, the practical recipe is: define a scorecard, run a 30-minute screening by a developer on video to fish for dealbreakers, keep… | ||
| The Importance of Web Accessibility | Erin Doyle, Joschi Kuphal, Molly Watt | 41m |
Panel states that about 1 billion people have disabilities and roughly 20% of users are affected, warns of US lawsuits happening about one every working hour… | ||
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