SkillsCasts
SkillsCasts
Explore our library of tech talks on the topics that truly matter to today's developers. Learn from the top minds behind the tools you're trying to master.
Every year we help organise hundreds of expert-led talks at conferences and meetups -- and since 2011 we've been preserving them in our free online library of SkillsCast videos. Dive into topics like Functional Programming, Agile methodologies, Java, Cloud & DevOps, Machine Learning, JavaScript, Architecture and so much more.
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Testing Stories Project
Featuring Melissa Fisher
Melissa Fisher shares the story of organising and managing the book "Testing Stories". Discover how this exciting project came to life through innovation, the power of communities and a collaborative leadership style.
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Transitioning from Being a Solo Tester to Being a Part of a Team
Featuring Andrea Jensen
Andrea Jensen shares the story of transitioning from being a solo tester to being a part of a testing couple —and the experiences, challenges and benefits that come along with pairing off.
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Why An API Story?
Featuring Louise Woodhams
In this testing story, Louise explains how Swaggers helped her to understand REST APIs, the joys of being an "HTTP code geek", and led her to appreciate Postman and Beeceptor.
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Test Lead in an Agile Transformation
Featuring Mike Harris
In this "Testing Story", Mike Harris shares the lessons learned from a successful agile transition where he played an active role as Test Lead. As a result of the transition his team developed better quality software, and released software more quickly to their customers.
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Keynote: Moving House
Featuring Vaughn Vernon
We are excited to welcome Vaughn Vernon back to DDDx: Domain-Driven Design eXchange for this very special keynote. Vaughn will explore software development and architecture through the metaphor of 'home'.
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Managing Commercial Platforms: The Architect’s Emerging Skill
Featuring Sonya Natanzon
Many enterprises use off-the-shelf platforms to support many areas of a business. While these perform critical functions, architects often have to work around them. Join Sonya as she shares best practices from her extensive experience as a solutions architect in the world of commercial platforms....
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Embracing Hexagonal Architecture with Serverless
Featuring Luca Mezzalira
Luca Mezzalira discusses how AWS Lambda provided the perfect environment to work with hexagonal architecture —an architectural pattern used for creating loosely coupled application components that can be easily connected to their software environment.
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Does Culture Impact Software Design?
Featuring Kenny Baas-Schwegler and Avraham Poupko
DDD is about communicating complexity via human language. This poses a challenge when working in a culturally diverse team. In this talk, Kenny and Avram and you will explore how culture can serve both as a challenge and opportunity.
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DDD for Monoliths
Featuring Carola Lilienthal
DDD is a great way to design and develop new software systems. But can DDD also help us with old large software systems? This talk shows how DDD gets a monolithic big ball of mud back on track.
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Is DDD Overrated?
Featuring Susanne Kaiser, Marco Heimeshoff and Stefan Tilkov
This provocatively titled panel will feature Stefan Tilkov, Marco Heimeshoff and Susanne Kaiser as they revisit a controversial-sounding blog post published by Stefan earlier this year. This is one session you do not want to miss!
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Practical DDD: Bounded Contexts + Events => Microservices
Featuring Indu Alagarsamy
Domain Driven Design and Messaging go hand in hand, like a warm chocolate brownie paired with vanilla ice-cream. In this talk, discover this intersection of DDD as a software discipline with messaging as a technology counterpart. Build reliable systems that can scale with the business changes!
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Keynote: The Best of Everything in DDD
Featuring Jessica Kerr
The Domain Driven Design community (and its people) have long espoused the key aspects of other paradigms like functional and object-oriented, agile and devops. In this keynote, Jessica will point out the essences of other paradigms inside DDD, and the crucial part that the rest all miss.
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From Domain Boundaries to Purposeful Architecture
Featuring Tomasz Jaskula
Identifying domain boundaries early on in the design process is key to establishing your system's usefulness. In this talk Tomasz, explores different boundaries dimensions, their impact on the design of the software, and how to choose appropriate tools and patterns when it comes to...
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Why (the Hell) Am I Doing Event Sourcing?
Featuring Sara Pellegrini
Writing CQRS and Event Sourcing applications can be difficult, but maintaining them can be even more of a challenge. At a certain point we start to wonder: is it really worth it?
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Collaborative Modelling Domain Boundaries
Featuring Paul de Raaij
How can we collaboratively split a large-system into multiple sub-domains, each with its own purpose/responsibilities? What even is the definition of a (sub)domain? In this talk, Paul shares the stories of many failures (and successes), distilled to heuristics that you can use yourself.
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BBC Platform: Our journey from messy code duplication to a collaborative component library
Featuring Ian Cottam
Back in 2016, throughout BBC Platform, UI code was duplicated inefficiently across many different teams. Our devs were super keen to avoid this but weren't sure how. In 2021 we're in a better place, find out what changed!
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gRPC load balancing in Rust
Featuring Helge Hoff
Running services in highly dynamic cloud environments forces developers to build their applications with resiliency and fault-tolerance as first-class concerns.
