DevFest Lille 2023
2023-05-26
Lille, France
[Devfest Lille 2018, DevFest Lille 2019, DevFest Lille 2022, DevFest Lille 2023, DevFest Lille 2024]
who it's for
frontend developers, backend engineers, platform engineers, engineering managers, mobile developers, machine learning engineers, accessibility engineers, devops engineers
topics
Vite frontend tooling; Apple accessibility tooling; API versioning with OpenAPI; OpenFaaS on Kubernetes; Kafka event-driven migration; model deployment as HTTP service; Quarkus 3 migration; OpenTelemetry instrumentation; asynchronous JavaScript patterns; HTTP caching strategies; clean architecture in Go; focus management and keyboard accessibility
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Keynote | Alizée Colin | 24m |
Alizée Colin examines how digital design practices are shaped by large technology companies, discussing the influence Big Tech exerts on designers' choices and… | ||
| Vite, a New Era of Frontend Tooling? | Christophe Jollivet, Yann-Thomas Le Moigne | 47m |
A presentation introduces Vite (Vitejs) as a modern frontend build/dev tool and compares it to older builders like Grunt, Gulp, Ant/Maven and Webpack. It… | ||
| Accessibility in the Apple Ecosystem: Tools & Solutions | Jihène Mejri | 45m |
Overview of accessibility in Apple’s ecosystem covering VoiceOver and Siri. It explains how VoiceOver enables blind or eyes-closed interaction, how to… | ||
| API Versioning for REST: In Real Life, How Do We Do It? | Alexandre Touret | 50m |
The talk covers practical strategies for versioning REST APIs when publishing them (for example using API Management). It explains concrete options to evolve… | ||
| Serverless: Avoiding Vendor Lock-In by Building Your Own Platform | Katia Himeur | 43m |
The talk explains what serverless and FaaS are and highlights vendor lock-in risks from managed cloud FaaS offerings. It shows how to avoid locking by building… | ||
| Lose Your Head, But Not Your Focus | Angela Ricci | 57m |
This talk examines keyboard focus management in web accessibility, arguing that WCAG/RGAA cover it only with broad principles while specific features need… | ||
| From an AI Model in a Notebook to a Real-Time Service: Let’s Architect! | Marie Alice Blete | 44m |
An example-driven design walkthrough for turning a trained AI model in a notebook into a low-latency HTTP service. It covers differences between batch… | ||
| Quarkus 3: What's New and How to Migrate | Loïc Mathieu | 45m |
Quarkus 3, due at the end of April, introduces many changes that can significantly affect existing applications. The talk covers the new features in Quarkus 3… | ||
| Event Driven, What Is It?! Another Buzzword? | Céline Louvet | 48m |
The talk explains what event-driven systems are by reviewing fundamentals and the publisher/subscriber model, detailing its benefits and drawbacks. It uses a… | ||
| From Startup to Profitable Company: The Path for Tech | Ludovic Borie | 47m |
A five-year case study of an agricultural startup transitioning from early-stage hype to a sustainable, profitable company. Covers practical tech-team… | ||
| Motional Intelligence: How Animation Brings Product to Life | Cyril Mottier | 24m |
This talk explains how animation is used as a design tool to guide users, communicate information hierarchy, direct attention through interactions, and add… | ||
| Clean Architecture: A Solution to Improve System Maintainability | Mehdi BOISSAT-BRON | 19m |
An engineer from leboncoin describes applying Clean Architecture across over 60 feature teams to improve maintainability of their API and internal systems used… | ||
| Career Changers: The New Wave of Dev Profiles | Helvira Goma | 15m |
Helvira Goma recounts her four-year journey converting to software development, describing the practical challenges like impostor syndrome, financial pressure… | ||
| #BackToBasics: The HTTP Cache | Hubert Sablonnière | 55m |
An introduction to HTTP caching that explains which HTTP headers (Cache-Control, ETag, etc.) are used by browsers, CDNs, proxy caches and servers, and how they… | ||
| From Bystander to Responsible: Halting the Impact of Racist Bias in UX | Marcy Ericka Charollois | 54m |
The talk examines racist bias in user experience design, citing examples like failed facial recognition, offensive image search results, and smart car… | ||
| How to Finish a Migration Project? What If We Used Kafka? | Arnaud Esteve | 49m |
A retrospective on large migration projects (cloud moves, DB changes, microservices, containerization and SaaS) that examines practical decisions, pitfalls and… | ||
| Designing Ecological Settings in Applications | Thomas Thibault | 23m |
The talk examines how mobile app settings currently fail to support ecological use of smartphones and often discourage sustainable choices through defaults… | ||
| Disability and Tech: A Match? | Thanh Lan Doublier | 18m |
Thanh Lan Doublier, a machine engineer in apprenticeship at Axa, discusses being a racialized woman with a disability in IT, examines whether being a developer… | ||
| Think Before You Click: Understanding the Risks of Online Data | Mélanie Jarrar | 19m |
The talk explains why individuals should care about personal data shared online, citing the vast amount of data produced daily. It covers the Cambridge… | ||
| Asynchronous JS Without the Cringe | Christophe Porteneuve | 46m |
Covers common mistakes with Promises and async/await in JavaScript—mixing .then() chains with async/await, unnecessary return await, async functions without… | ||
| Breaking the Language Barrier to Bond Your Teams | Louis CAD | 46m |
How using a multiplatform language such as Kotlin can reduce communication and collaboration friction when teams use many different programming languages… | ||
| Alice in Opentelemetry Land | Jérôme Tama | 50m |
A concrete case study of deploying OpenTelemetry to instrument a running Quarkus application on a Kubernetes cluster. It covers real-world challenges… | ||
| Closing Keynote | Baptiste Robert | 46m |
Baptiste Robert explains how small pieces of information (name, nickname, etc.) can be used to reconstruct a person’s digital footprint. He demonstrates… | ||
| After Movie | Nicolas Detrez | 02m |
A highlight video produced by GDG Lille showcasing DevFest Lille 2023. The short film was created and directed by Nicolas Detrez and compiles event footage… | ||
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