GOTO Aarhus 2023
who it's for
software developers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, security engineers, engineering managers, data engineers, developer experience engineers
topics
GitHub security features; data-oriented programming; remote attestation with TrustZone; Spotify Backstage developer portal; Erlang BEAM concurrency; Pijul version control; GraalVM native image; GitOps for Kubernetes rollouts; platform engineering SLOs; energy-efficient software architecture; multi-cloud developer enablement; capture the flag hacker labs
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Protect Your Code with GitHub Security Features | Rob Bos | 49m |
Shows concrete setups and results: GitHub enforces commit signing via GPG/SSH/USB keys and Vigilant mode so pushes can be required to be signed; Dependabot… | ||
| Reduce System Complexity with Data-Oriented Programming | Yehonathan Sharvit | 40m |
Argues that treating information as immutable value reduces cognitive load, demonstrates with a library data model and shows updating Watchmen requires only… | ||
| Has My IoT Device Been Hacked? Establishing Trust w/ Remote Attestation | Edlira Dushku | 40m |
Clear comparison of how Remote Attestation is applied to real IoT problems: a taxonomy of hybrid attestation with ARM TrustZone for minimal hardware anchors… | ||
| Shaping The Future of Developer Productivity with Spotify Backstage | Lee Mills | 40m |
Backstage is an open source developer portal adopted by over 1,000 companies and impacting roughly 4 million engineers. It delivers a Software Catalog and… | ||
| Concurrency Oriented Programming in a Modern World | Robert Virding, Francesco Cesarini | 52m |
Erlang/BEAM claims a concurrency-first model with isolated lightweight processes that take 1–3 microseconds to spawn a process, use per-process mailboxes and… | ||
| How Work Works | James Lewis | 53m |
Ten years of trends condense into a claim: simulate organisations with agent-based models plus LLMs to predict flow and de-risk changes. Examples: Thoughtworks… | ||
| Pijul: Version-Control Post-Git | Pierre-Étienne Meunier | 50m |
Pijul claims a patch‑first VCS with associative and commutative merges that avoid Git’s silent reshuffles by representing files as directed byte graphs and… | ||
| Principles For Secure & Reliable Systems | Eleanor Saitta | 40m |
Principles and concrete practices for resilient security emphasize separating state and logic, making services immutable and ephemeral (example: short… | ||
| Shaping Language in Cybersecurity For People | Ceri Jones | 38m |
Argues that everyday cybersecurity language alienates people and undermines behaviour change, backing it with a UK government research project and a National… | ||
| Writing For Nerds - Blogging For Fun and (Not Much) Profit | Charles Humble | 44m |
Argues writing is a learnable craft with programming parallels and a repeatable process: pick a Persona, choose format and aim for about 1500 words for a… | ||
| Java in the Cloud with GraalVM | Alina Yurenko | 42m |
GraalVM Native Image compiles Java ahead‑of‑time into a single native executable and the demo shows concrete wins: a Micronaut app boots in 22 ms startup vs… | ||
| Why Most Data Projects Fail & How to Avoid It | Jesse Anderson | 28m |
Claims that 85% of data projects fail and that LLMs like GPT-3/GPT-4 aren’t a silver bullet, with concrete fixes: pick architectures after use cases, avoid… | ||
| Sonic Pi - BEAM Up The VJ! | Sam Aaron | 47m |
Sonic Pi is a code-first music environment that adds real concurrency via live loops, does feature detection to treat drum breaks as arrays with onset-based… | ||
| How Autonomy Saved One of Spotify’s Most Loved Features | Joakim Sunden | 43m |
Spotify builds a 30‑song playlist using collaborative filtering, refreshes it every Monday, and ships it as an ordinary playlist with no front‑end work. A one… | ||
| Agile Transformations Using The “Spotify Model” | Joakim Sunden | 47m |
Case study of a two year transformation at Telenor uses tribes and squads and changes in sourcing to insource engineering to recreate empowered product teams… | ||
| Quantum & High-Performance Computing in The Cloud | Søren Gammelmark, Stig E. Rasmussen | 36m |
Company builds a cloud service that blends classical HPC and future quantum backends, converting a six hour overnight risk job into a five minute API call by… | ||
| An Introduction to Functional Imperative Programming in Flix | Magnus Madsen | 41m |
Flix presents a real language with a type and effect polymorphism system that infers purity, a region-based memory model that lets functions allocate mutable… | ||
| Next-Generation Cloud Native Apps with Spring Boot 3 | Thomas Vitale | 46m |
Spring Boot 3 requires Java 17 baseline and shows concrete gains: the demo app drops from ~4s startup and 113MB heap on Java 8 to ~1.5s and ~half the memory on… | ||
| Remote Working Approaches That Worked (And Some That Didn’t) | Charles Humble | 52m |
Argues remote work can improve collaboration and performance but only with intentional design: common wins include Pomodoro for recurring grind tasks and… | ||
| Have I Been Pwned? | Troy Hunt | 50m |
Have I Been Pwned describes processing over 11 billion breached records, running Pwned Passwords approaching a billion unique passwords and protecting sites… | ||
| Energy-Efficient Software Architecture for Developers | Henrik Bærbak Christensen | 42m |
Measurements use a cheap power plug (≈150 DKK) and Linux powerstat to log CPU joules; a small test machine draws ~11 W idle and ~43 W at full load. A monolith… | ||
| Software Rollout at Scale: Using GitOps to Scale Kubernetes Rollouts | Thor Lange | 39m |
Shows an opinionated GitOps pattern that scales from one cluster to ~100 managed clusters using Flux and a demo on kind, deploying podinfo plus an NGINX… | ||
| Why Is My App SLOw? Defining Reliability in Platform Engineering | Jez Humble | 40m |
Google Cloud Serverless SRE defines reliability by testing for stationarity of per-version latency distributions, building log‑normal baselines for cohorts and… | ||
| 130 People – No Bosses: Too Good To Be True? | Helle Markmann | 45m |
Vertica runs as 130 people, no bosses organized into 16 self-contained customer teams plus ~15 support staff and cross‑organizational groups; decisions happen… | ||
| The Treacherous Trek to Development | Whitney Lee, Viktor Farcic | 47m |
Source code becomes a container image built with Cloud Native Buildpacks, then the image is pushed to Docker Hub while Dragonfly peer-to-peer distribution… | ||
| Concurrency Abstractions for Application Security | Bram Verburg | 43m |
Claims that Erlang/BEAM-style concurrency—isolated lightweight processes, message passing, and supervision trees implemented via OTP—shifts responsibility from… | ||
| 5 Tricks To Make Your Apps Greener, Cheaper & Nicer | Holly Cummins | 42m |
Gives five concrete levers: pick region and time using ElectricityMap (Virginia is notably coal‑heavy), adopt “light‑switch Ops” to stop zombie and… | ||
| Enabling Developers in a Multi-Cloud World | Mauricio Salatino | 51m |
A demo platform extends Kubernetes with a custom Environment CRD to provision isolated dev clusters and apps using Crossplane for cloud resources and vcluster… | ||
| Competence Development Through Capture the Flag & Virtual Hacker Labs | Jens M. Pedersen | 39m |
Built a web-accessible lab that spins up virtual Kali in the browser and isolated vulnerable VMs, growing from five starter exercises to about 500 curated… | ||
| Future Skills - How to Foster IT Creativity | Louise Overgaard | 40m |
Coding Pirates runs after‑school clubs for 7–17 year olds, operates Denmark’s First Lego League with ~4,500–5,000 participants, and incubates projects from… | ||
| Predicting Optimal Temperature in The Transmission System | Maria Jensen | 31m |
Proof of technology shows two machine learning models: one forecasts optimal supply temperature 12 hours ahead (trained on under 10,000 representative… | ||
| Making Software & Data Architectures Sustainable | Madeleine Malmsten, Nikhil Srinidhi | 46m |
Claim: cloud computing is about 3% of global greenhouse gases (roughly 1.5× aviation and 3× UK annual emissions) and migrating appropriate workloads can cut… | ||
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