Ignite Talks Day 1
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Design thinking gets applied to a stalled career using concrete steps: an internal review, a week of flow state tracking to surface energizing activities, mind‑mapping to find overlaps, and listing assumptions about options. The process moves to low‑risk prototypes — interviews, shop volunteering and day‑in‑the‑life tests — which reveal three paths and result in a merchant job offer. The claim is that iterative prototyping turns uncertainty into a hireable outcome.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:29Who is Robby Lonkman
- 2:33What is developer experience
- 3:56Measuring developer experience
- 5:20Developer experience and velocity
- 6:01Introduction to API security talk
- 6:43API security breaches and risks
- 8:27Collaborating on API security
- 9:52Introduction to design thinking
- 10:56Applying design thinking to real life
- 11:37Design thinking case study
- 13:40Prototyping and testing career paths
- 15:28Summary of design thinking
- 15:49Introduction to data modeling talk
- 16:38The missing three Ds
- 17:40Data modeling best practices
- 18:43The importance of documentation
- 20:07Choosing the right database
- 21:30Data and API driven SRE
- 22:14How to pronounce Kubernetes
- 24:42Closing remarks
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