Heapcon 2019
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Conference Opening - long | 13m | |
Conference opens by summarizing concrete logistics and one surprise: an evening unconference of nine roundtables happened, badges come with lanyards printed as… | ||
| Designing for complexity | Dave Snowden | 01h 01m |
Argues design thinking is commodified and prescribes concrete methods: capture distributed anecdotes into a narrative database, surface the 17% of contrarian… | ||
| From dev to prod. One Year of Using Kubernetes in Production | Miloš Milunović | 40m |
One year running Kubernetes in production across five clusters aligned into a CI/CD pipeline yields concrete practices: use Azure DevOps for repos and enforced… | ||
| The Future of Java and You | Heather VanCura | 50m |
Java SE targets the cloud with an explicit governance model: every feature must deliver a specification, a reference implementation and a TCK so multiple… | ||
| Jakarta EE and Cloud Native Projects at Eclipse Foundation | Tanja Obradovic | 40m |
Jakarta EE is the open-source successor to Java EE, released Sept 10 as fully equivalent to Java EE and shipping with three compatible implementations on day… | ||
| Getting Started with Deep Learning for Software Developers | Zoran Sevarac | 51m |
Shows a concrete Java path to deep learning: load a CSV credit card dataset (~284k rows with ~500 frauds), balance classes by sampling, train a feed‑forward… | ||
| RabbitMQ in Real Life - Tips and Tricks | Veljko Đorđević | 32m |
Practical notes on running RabbitMQ for messaging: production SMS and a number discovery service use temporary reply-to queues per Apache worker for… | ||
| Live Hacking: Breaking into Your Web App | Brian Vermeer | 47m |
Demo shows concrete, reproducible breakins: path traversal via URL‑encoded ../ to read /etc/passwd and package.json, ReDoS with a 60,000‑char regex payload… | ||
| JavaScript for Artists | George Mandis | 50m |
Argues JavaScript is a practical art platform because it runs in browser, server and hardware and gives immediate APIs: canvas/WebGL, Web Audio, media capture… | ||
| Converting Technical Expertise And Soft Skills Into Great Products | Boban Pajić | 30m |
Company builds Rabbits, an open‑source visual workflow tool for bioinformatics that moves from a desktop Electron app to a browser SaaS after users hit… | ||
| Make the Cassette Deck Great Again Revival of the Coolest Retro Tech | Dragiša Rakić | 31m |
Build replaces broken cassette mechanics with a Raspberry Pi running a QT interface and Clementine as the audio engine, creating a standalone, instant‑on deck… | ||
| Building a Guitar Amplifier Using the Web Audio API | Nemanja Miljković | 34m |
Heapcon is a regional tech conference for software engineers and tech business, organized by Heapspace.
https://heapcon.io | ||
| How to Overcome Your Fears to Become a Conference Speaker | Antonio Cobo Cuenca | 46m |
Lists real acceptance rates and concrete actions: many conferences get hundreds of submissions (examples cited: ~800, ~350 and even ~1,000) so acceptance often… | ||
| Incorporating Engineers into the Entire Product Lifecycle | Jaša Niklanovič | 43m |
Company culture drives whether engineers sit at the center of product: a startup builds a web design tool at Turtle and uses Netflix/Spotify ideas—internal… | ||
| Engineering Experience | Mišel Tekinder | 29m |
A concrete claim: embed UX into development by running pair designing sessions and compiling diagnostic user profiles (device CPU/RAM, battery, network… | ||
| The importance of Engineering Systems: How to Build Efficient ... | Milos Milovanovic | 35m |
A browser-hosted app platform streams VM displays to users using H.264 streaming, runs entirely in public clouds and uses React + TypeScript in the frontend… | ||
| Hype or Reality? Launch of the Serbian Startup Ecosystem Report | Zoja Kukić | 18m |
Combines Startup Genome public data with an original Digital Survey Initiative and PwC analysis to peer‑compare Serbia (Belgrade+Novi Sad) to… | ||
| It's Time to Reinvent the Web, Without the Internet | Filip Danić | 25m |
Argues for a peer-to-peer, offline-first web using the Dat protocol and Beaker browser, shows a working decentralized Twitter clone called chirper… | ||
| Hitchhikers Guide to the Microservcies | Vladimir Dejanovic | 47m |
Argues that microservices solve specific problems but add complexity, so decide on them only after mapping dependencies and data sources; warns against… | ||
| Kotlin Is for Hipsters | Riccardo Lippolis, Jorrit van der Ven | 46m |
A production backend for the Port of Rotterdam route planner "Navigate" runs full backend in Kotlin and uses Neo4j, Spring, Gradle, CircleCI and SonarQube… | ||
| Applying NASA Coding Guidel ines to Java Script | Denis Radin | 33m |
Applies JPL/NASA coding rules to JavaScript and shows a working HTML/JS JavaScript aircraft instrument that actually flew over Amsterdam at ~1,000 m for… | ||
| REST security essentials | Aleksandar Radisavljević | 32m |
Covers concrete tradeoffs: use HTTPS; avoid Basic auth; session IDs force server-side storage and sticky sessions; prefer authorization code grant for… | ||
| Test Automation Without Assertions | Jeremias Roessler | 47m |
Demonstrates replacing assertion-based checks with recheck web golden-master testing: tests record the whole DOM, store an XML gold file, and compare runs so… | ||
| Biofeedback Technology and Its Use in the Educational System | Marko Ferek | 34m |
Demonstrates a deployed biofeedback system (the American device Play Attention) that reads skin signals with three sensors rather than EEG, claims first… | ||
| Where Is My Cache? Architectural Patterns for Caching ... | Rafal Leszko | 43m |
Compares five concrete caching patterns and when each actually works: embedded cache (Guava/Ehcache with Spring @Cacheable) for lowest JVM latency but… | ||
| Behind the AI Curtain - Designing for Machine Learning Products | Crystal C. Yan | 37m |
Describes redesigning a B2B predictive analytics UI that reports bill passage likelihood (users confuse a distribution chart for a time series and misinterpret… | ||
| Do I Really Need Containers? | Antonis Kalipetis | 43m |
Argues containers are not magic speedups — the “10x by moving to containers” claim is misleading — and explains that a container is just a process isolated by… | ||
| Edge Computing ... What's That All About? | Dejan Bosanac | 44m |
Edge means moving compute from core clouds to sites near users and sensors to cut latency and bandwidth; claims include cars producing tens of gigabytes per… | ||
| Designing Data Intensive Applications In Serverless Architecture | Nikolay Matvienko | 34m |
Claims a serverless ETL blueprint that cut costs by 70% cheaper and scales to 10–100s GB/s using AWS Lambda, S3 data lakes, Kinesis/SNS/SQS for transport… | ||
| A Bluffer's Guide to Technical Debt for Other People | Steve Freeman | 41m |
Argues that technical debt behaves like a portfolio of short call options rather than linear principal plus interest, so risk spikes when many options get… | ||
| Event Processing in Action | Sebastian Malaca | 51m |
Argues that modeling a CI pipeline as events turns business flows into code: a pull request created starts builds, an event processor normalizes XML to JSON… | ||
| Polytechnical Careering | Ted Neward | 01h 02m |
Argues that career value comes from concrete breadth: learn languages and stores, build domain-specific tools, and reuse ideas across platforms. Cites Haskell… | ||
| Microservice Architecture Based on Event Sourcing | Vladimir Vajda | 26m |
A bookshop example shows replacing UI-backend calls with an event bus (Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ) so services no longer need addresses, gain plug‑and‑play, and… | ||
| Ready Steady Crash | Katie Koschland | 38m |
Load testing a new internal biz ops API using Artillery against a staging replica reveals a reproducible crash: 25 RPS average, latency jumping from 67 ms to… | ||
| Navigating Through Space | Lois Kim | 36m |
JPL’s small creative studio turns raw mission data into specific artifacts: a series of exoplanet travel posters that go viral after an intern’s tweet; an… | ||
| Pattern Analysis: Learned vs. Engineered | Miloš Stojanović | 27m |
Deep convolutional nets like AlexNet cut ImageNet error from ~25% to ~15% in 2012 and learn interpretable first‑layer kernels that mirror Gabor filters instead… | ||
| Advanced Serverless Architectural Patterns on AWS | Alex Casalboni | 47m |
Claims that serverless removes servers and scale to zero while charging by 100ms and that cold starts are a few hundred milliseconds via Firecracker microVMs… | ||
| Real-world Machine Learning with TensorFlow and Cloud AI | Kaz Sato | 38m |
Shows concrete pipelines using TensorFlow and Cloud AutoML/AutoML Vision: upload ~50,000 labeled images, train in ~12 hours for ≈$300, export a model to run on… | ||
| Automated Program Generation from Input-Output Examples | Sumit Gulwani | 49m |
A demo of example-driven program synthesis shows a production-grade engine used in Excel as Flash Fill (since 2013) with about one million weekly invocations… | ||
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