Thursday's Matter
Join us for a weekly online meetup organised by Skills Matter.
What is Thursday's Matter?
Thursday's Matter is a virtual meetup on the topics that truly matter to today's developers.
Join us every Thursday when we'll be joined by an expert from around the globe. Each week we'll explore topics such as functional languages, mobile development, agile methodologies and machine learning.
THE FORMAT A 40-minute expert talk followed by a Q&A session.
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Personal Engineering: Living Well at Work with Portia Tung
Organised by Thursday's Matter
Join Portia Tung for a playful exploration of your comfort zone and challenges of your choice as you baseline and develop your skillset in the core skills of active listening, powerful questioning and self-awareness which will enable you to show up more as your whole self.
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Containers Beyond the Fundamentals, What Next? with Matt Saunders
Organised by Thursday's Matter
Learning the fundamentals of containers and Docker allows you to run containers, and build images, and gives an introduction into how to operate them at scale. But how do you move to the next level?
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Of Technical Leaders, the 10x Dev and Other Mythical Creatures with José Huerta
Organised by Thursday's Matter
Over time the perception of roles, core skills and needs of software companies have evolved, giving rise to a new breath of technical leadership. However, these skills and profiles are in short supply. Jose Huerta will share some personal reflections on the topic and lessons learned.
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Emotional Intelligence in Tech with Rosemarie Wilson
Organised by Thursday's Matter
Are you frustrated by conversations that go nowhere in spite of your best efforts at work? Do you find meetings a drain of energy and hope? Join Rosemarie Wilson for this talk on Emotional Intelligence and learn how to get more of your own way for the greater good.
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Domain Modelling in a Remote World
Featuring Marco Heimeshoff
Even while working remotely, we still need to envision new business models, explore processes and design software systems. In this session you will discover a collection of amazing new tools and remote modelling methods that the DDD community has experimented with and distilled throughout 2020.
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Why Less?
Featuring Ben Maynard and Bas Vodde
In this this in-depth conversation, Bas Vodde, the co-creator of LeSS. and Ben Maynard, the UK only’s Certified LeSS Trainer and Coach, share stories of LeSS adoptions that went well and those that went not so well. Discover “Why LeSS” either helped or hindered the organisation in each example.
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AWS Immersion Days
Featuring Derya Sezen
In this SkillsCast Dorian Sezen offers an intro to AWS Immersion Days, a new initiative designed as a hands-on way to explore/asses different facets of the Amazon Web Services. Dorian shares tips of how you can get the most out of these Immersion Days to solve your team's particular...
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Evolutionary Architecture
Featuring Matt Belcher
Join Matt Belcher and explore the concepts behind Evolutionary Architecture. You will come away with an understanding of how to start building an Evolutionary Architecture, the engineering practices you’ll need and some pitfalls to watch out for along the way.
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Agile During the Time of Jesus
Featuring Abid Quereshi
In this tongue in cheek talk, Abid Quereshi explores the reaction to tradition and power structures and an attempt to help us see ourselves through the lens of Rome, 33BCE.
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The Death of Silos
Featuring José Huerta
We have all been victims of poor collaboration. How is it that if everyone wants what is best for the organisation, we can’t seem to agree on how to achieve it? In this talk, José Huerta explores the causes of this phenomena and shares lessons learned from trying to address it.
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Strategic Domain-Driven Design Tools For Non-DDD People
Featuring Nick Tune
Domain-Driven Design has a reputation for being hard to grasp for newcomers. In this session Nick Tune will introduce several open-source tools that even people with no prior DDD experience can utilise to create a loosely-coupled architecture.
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Implementing Microservices: Nobody Told Me About That
Featuring Khaled Souf
I'm sure you've heard about microservices. Did you suffer when implementing microservice architecture? Did you fail (like I did) implementing them?
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