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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Prepare for What "Looms" Ahead

Featuring Heinz Kabutz

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Digital Disruption & Economies of Speed

Featuring Dave Farley

What does "Digital Disruption" really mean? Dave Farley offers a fascinating look at how the world's most high-performing organisations use speed and efficiency as a tool, rather than just a cost-saving measure.

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Go Faster, Be Safer: Release Velocity and Psychological Safety

Featuring Heidi Waterhouse

We've proven that faster, smaller releases reduce outages and downtime, but how can we use that understanding to build systems that allow for the fallibility of humans and systems?

In this talk, Heidi Waterhouse delves into the tension between quality, speed and changing our beliefs.

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The Technology and Psychology of Refactoring

Featuring Chelsea Troy

When the requirements change out from under your team, your code has to change. So it’s worthwhile to build your skills in assessing code maintainability, deciding whether to refactor, and doing the refactor. In this practical talk, Chelsea addresses key questions around refactoring.

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Lessons Deploying Lean Enterprise at Scale

Featuring Barry O'Reilly

Barry O'Reilly looks at the key issues holding back organizations from unleashing innovation and achieving high performance at scale. In this talk Barry shares real world stories from the enterprises he's helped to embrace continuous improvement and rekindle their capacity for...

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Rust from a Frontend Perspective

Featuring Tami Reichold

This talk is introduction to Rust WASM

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Meeting Our First Production Need with Rust

Featuring Matt Bidewell

Sharing our future direction now we have some Rust code in production

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A Millions Ads Journey with Rust

Featuring Mohan Taylor

We will share our journey with Rust, where we started, why we started & where we are going

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90 Minutes: Product vs Platform

Featuring Dave Thomas

Dave discusses the challenges & tradeoffs faced by product & engineering management as they seek to deliver best platform for their business

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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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What an Architect Can Learn from Retrospective Failures

Featuring Aino Vonge Corry

Based on 15 years of experience with facilitating retrospectives for software developers, I have described the most common challenges in antipatterns.

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Event-Driven Microservices: The Sense, Nonsense and a Way Forward

Featuring Allard Buijze

Learn the promises made and if microservices delivered, how microservices technology evolved and impacted decisions, and what it means to be event-driven.

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Lightning Talk: E Pluribus Unum – Adventures in Polycloud Delivery

Featuring Paula Paul

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Technologies for Microservices

Featuring Eberhard Wolff

Many say: "Microservices are small REST services" — but the technology choice for microservices is much bigger. This talk provides an overview of various approaches and when to use them.

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Minimum Viable Migrations (MVM), A Path to Cloud Modernization

Featuring Ben Ellerby

Most teams take an Agile approach to day-to-day engineering, but for migration projects this strategy goes out the window. In this talk, Ben Ellerby explores how a focus on Minimum Viable Migrations allows assumptions to be tested faster, increased team focus and better value to customers.

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Service Mess to Service Mesh

Featuring Rob Richardson

Join Rob Richardson for this introduction (or reintroduction) to service mesh. Through live demos of both Istio and Linkerd, Rob explains why (and why not) to use this popular infrastructure layer.

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