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.
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How to Read Complex Code?
Featuring Felienne Hermans
In this talk, Felienne Hermans, associate professor at Leiden University, will firstly dive into the cognitive processes that play a role when reading code. She will then show you theories for reading code, and close the talk with some hands-on techniques that can be used to read to any piece of...
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The Myth of Team Autonomy: Why it is an Illusion and We Still Need It
Featuring Gerrit Beine
Autonomy is often considered a value without defining what it actually is. The talk looks at the question of team autonomy from the perspective of organisations. Can there be autonomous teams? What does autonomy mean within an organisation? Why does it happen that teams are considered as...
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Why Software Should Reflect Real Life
Featuring Yara Mayer
Not taking into account what a piece of software represents in real life can lead to higher complexity, additional dev costs, difficult refactorings, and ultimately, a software that no longer scales. This talk looks at some real-life examples and at things to keep in mind to avoid these issues.
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Quality Storming: Collaborative Modelling for Quality Requirements
Featuring Michael Plöd
This talk provides an intro to Quality Storming, a collaborative modelling technique which brings together a set of stakeholders of a product or project to collect quality requirements. The goal is to gain a shared understanding of the real needs for the quality characteristics of a product.
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Balancing Choreography and Orchestration
Featuring Bernd Rücker
Choreography vs. orchestration is not about choosing the RIGHT approach. In real life, you need to balance both, so it is about choosing wisely on a case-by-case basis. This talk walks you through the differences and offers concrete guidance on decision criteria, backed by examples.
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Domain-Driven Design & Legacy: Evolution Not Revolution
Featuring Eberhard Wolff
This talk focuses on techniques for introducing bounded contexts and assessing where improvements are needed. In this way, Domain-Driven Design becomes possible where it is needed most – in existing systems that are often business critical, but were originally developed with no regard to DDD.
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That's Not in my Job Description
Featuring Alexander Lorz
Compared to some of the IT industry’s more imaginative job descriptions, “software architect” appears to be a clear-cut role with a generally accepted set of duties and responsibilities. Upon closer inspection, however, this seems to be one of those things that everyone agrees on until one starts...
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Architecture, Babies, and Bathwater
Featuring Stefan Tilkov
To seasoned software architects, it sometimes seems as if our discipline is more alike to the fashion industry than we’d like, and the hype cycle might be the best-known (pseudo-)mathematical graph in our community. Is everything new really only old stuff in new disguise, or is that just old...
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Why a Diverse Team is Crucial to Startup Success
Featuring Melissa Jurkoic
How does team diversity impact your customers’ experience? You will attract and relate to customers who reflect your team. If you don’t represent the right dimensions of diversity, you are leaving an amazing experience behind.
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Architectural Patterns for Rapid, Reliable, Frequent and Sustainable Development
Featuring Chris Richardson
In this talk, I describe loose coupling and modularity and why they are is essential. You will learn about three architectural patterns: traditional monolith, modular monolith and microservices. I describe the benefits, drawbacks and issues of each pattern and how well it supports rapid,...
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Legacy Supplantation Patterns
Featuring Ian Cartwright and Rob Horn
In this talk we describe several of the legacy supplanation patterns that we found to be successful as well as some of the “anti-patterns” that more often than not lead to failure. For each pattern, we describe a particular approach, the context where it’s effective and explain how and why you...
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Beyond Micro Frontends: Frontend Moduliths for Enterprise Solutions
Featuring Manfred Steyer
Micro Frontends are not the only solution and – unsurprisingly – not always suitable. Hence, in this session, I present an alternative frontend architecture that we have successfully used in numerous enterprise projects in recent years: the Frontend Modulith.
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Software Architecture, Team Topologies, and Complexity Science
Featuring James Lewis
Recent research summarised in the book Accelerate points to a set of practices that lead to high software development organisation performance. Simultaneously, research from the Santa Fe institute on Complex Adaptive Systems over the last 20 years seems to point to a grand unified theory of...
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Metrics for Architects
Featuring Alexander von Zitzewitz
Software metrics can be used effectively to judge the maintainability and architectural quality of a code base and as an early warning sign about architectural and technical debt. This talk introduces key metrics that every architect should know and introduces a new metric to measure...
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Compression, Dedupe, Encryption, Conundrums in Cloud
Featuring Tejas Chopra
Cloud storage footprint is in exabytes and exponentially growing. In this talk, we will cover some of the space and time optimizations, which have historically been applied to on-premise file storage, and how they would be applied to objects stored in Cloud.
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D.A.R.E. More, F.E.A.R. Less – How Journaling Puts Leadership in Action
Featuring Cosima Laube
During my career in IT and people development I had several turning points where journaling techniques helped me successfully tackle the next challenge. Over the years I reflected why those ‘written self-reflection’ techniques are so powerful and – at the same time – they are still quite rarely...
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Architecture Meets Artificial Intelligence
Featuring Andreas Rausch and Christoph Knieke
In development and implementation of AI-based systems, the main challenge is not to develop the best models/algorithms, but to provide support for the entire lifecycle. In this talk we will show the different aspects of a Software Architect has to master to integrate AI-based technologies.
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Building Reactive Systems on AWS
Featuring Sascha Möllering
Today, end users often expect subsecond response time and 100% uptime. Reactive systems can address these requirements. In this session, you'll learn how users adopt reactive patterns for their high-performance applications and have a look at typical, well-architected implementations on AWS.
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Beyond the Known Knowns
Featuring Kevlin Henney
This talk looks at the relationship of knowledge to software, the codification of knowledge in architecture, the acquisition of knowledge to development process, and how we can make progress in the presence of known unknowns, unknown unknowns and unknowable unknowns.
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Architecture & DevOps – How to Deliver Sustainable Quality in an Ever-Changing Environment
Featuring Peter Götz
How can Software Architecture and DevOps successfully fit together? This talk uses real-world examples to explore general strategies agile teams can use to build and foster a DevOps culture while at the same time ensuring high-quality and sustainable software delivery.
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