GOTOpia Chicago 2021
2021-04-20..2021-04-21
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who it's for
software engineers, platform engineers, engineering managers, devops engineers, site reliability engineers, product managers
topics
domain driven design bounded context; kubernetes development workflows with Tilt; Svelte and SvelteKit apps; Istio vs Linkerd service meshes; Phoenix LiveView realtime apps; Kafka cluster operations and recovery; chaos engineering practices; multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters; Next.js TypeScript Tailwind with Hasura GraphQL; accessible JavaScript techniques
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Is Domain-Driven Design Overrated? | Stefan Tilkov | 31m |
Argues that DDD’s real, useful contributions are clear names for design problems and the ubiquitous language, plus the strategic idea of bounded context and… | ||
| Successful Kubernetes Development Workflows | Ellen Körbes | 36m |
Compares concrete workflows: Datadog runs a remote cluster for ~300 services and uses Tilt plus Helm to pull CI images, add developer buttons for DB flushes… | ||
| How to Read Complex Code? | Felienne Hermans | 33m |
Developers spend 58% of their time reading code and 85% learned programming before 19, so reading is a skill not a pastime. Cognitive limits (Miller’s 5–9… | ||
| Svelte - Web App Development Reimagined | Mark Volkmann | 36m |
Shows a working Todo app built with Svelte and SvelteKit so you see compiled components (no runtime library), the fade animation actually implemented, and the… | ||
| Service Meshes: Istio, Linkerd - or No Mesh at All? | Hanna Prinz, Eberhard Wolff | 33m |
Compares Istio (Envoy-based) and Linkerd (own proxy) with concrete tradeoffs: Envoy proxy brings many features and customization, Linkerd prioritizes… | ||
| The Power & Performance of Phoenix LiveView | Geoffrey Lessel | 40m |
Shows how Phoenix LiveView replaces a controller with a LiveView module using mount, handle_info and handle_event, pushes server-rendered diffs over websockets… | ||
| Agility is Inefficient | Klaus Bucka-Lassen | 37m |
Argues that agility prioritizes effectiveness over narrow efficiency, using concrete cases: Blockbuster closes 9085 branches after optimizing costs instead of… | ||
| Scale, Flow and Microservices | James Lewis | 42m |
Shows that the same scaling laws from biology and cities apply to software organizations: mammal metabolic rate scales with exponent 0.75, typical companies… | ||
| Adopting an Experimental Mindset | Mark Rickmeier | 30m |
Six core elements for an experimental culture: protect thinking time with Clockwise to create multi-hour blocks, adopt roles and card prompts (a card game… | ||
| Kafka, DevOps...And Resilience for All | James Bowkett | 40m |
Shows how Kafka cluster ops are turned into repeatable IaC workflows: uses Bash, a terraform provider or a Kafka-based kafka config manager to declare topics… | ||
| Agility at Scale: A Meeting of Mindsets | Anna Urbaniak, Daniel Terhorst-North | 35m |
Argues that scaling agility requires both industrial and digital mindsets and introduces autonomy liquidity — treating objective, constraints, accountability… | ||
| Explosive Velocity with a Modern Stack | Tejas Kumar | 38m |
Builds a working to‑do app from zero using Next.js + TypeScript + Tailwind in minutes, wires it to a Postgres database via Hasura GraphQL (mutation and query… | ||
| Kafka in the Wild | Laura Schornack, Maureen Penzenik | 26m |
Claims that reusing domain-defined Kafka topics cuts delivery time by eliminating duplicated, mutated datasets; shows a working design and demo using Kafka… | ||
| Remote Right: How to Thrive in a Post-Office World | Brendan O'Leary | 22m |
GitLab runs 1,300 people across 65+ countries and claims an 8,000-page handbook as the single source of truth, uses 25- or 50-minute meetings to prevent… | ||
| Dungeons, Dragons and Developers | Matt Brunt | 37m |
Compares D&D mechanics to software teams and makes concrete claims: a lopsided team of “wizards” who favor algorithms fails while a balanced party of fighters… | ||
| Practical Quantum Computing | Murray Thom | 27m |
Claims concrete wins: protein design by Minton AI moves to live virus testing against COVID‑19, Save‑On‑Foods: 25 hours → 2 minutes for a logistics task, and… | ||
| Once Upon a Time in Agile | John Le Drew | 55m |
Argues that the core problem is misalignment not lack of practice and quantifies adoption with 2.5% innovators and the usual 13.5 / 34 / 34 / 16 split, showing… | ||
| Leveraging Multi-Cloud Clusters in Real-World Scenarios | Adrienne Braganza Tacke | 42m |
Explains running a MongoDB Atlas multi‑cloud cluster across AWS, GCP and Azure to solve concrete problems: meet Canadian and Australian data residency rules by… | ||
| Using JavaScript to Find Your Dog | Milecia McGregor | 17m |
Builds a portable dog locator using an Arduino Uno, a Bluetooth module, four AAA batteries and a small beeper; backend is Node + Express with the Johnny-Five… | ||
| The Pony Express & How Technology Moves Fast | PJ Hagerty | 27m |
Pony Express runs messages New York to San Francisco in 10 days but lasts only 18 months before telegraph replaces it, illustrating that workable stopgaps can… | ||
| The Role of Software Developers in Machine Learning | Catherine Gamboa | 33m |
Claim: model training takes about 2% of project time, while data labeling runs $0.80 to several dollars per label and requires millions of images. Example… | ||
| AccessibleJS | Jemima Abu | 26m |
Shows concrete fixes: uses aria-live to announce a five‑second countdown, toggles aria-hidden when showing/hiding panels, and sets custom controls with role +… | ||
| Chaos Engineering Panel | A. Rinehart, C. Yakomin, C. Nash, D. Lavezzo, K. Shortridge | 48m |
Panel outlines concrete first steps: verify top 10 alerts and measure time to detect and respond, run small game days and fire drills, and iterate from sandbox… | ||
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