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We built 3 conference tracks to discuss the past, present and future of tech with 40+ international speakers.
We built 3 conference tracks to discuss the past, present and future of tech with 40+ international speakers.
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Humanity faces an unprecedent crisis that threatens all life of Earth. Desert storm fighter pilot and NASA astronaut Ron Garan will address this head-on in his keynote: The Orbital Perspective. Ron will take us on an extraordinary journey through outer space and inner space. From this perspective, Ron will map out a viable path forward - to solve our crisis, we need a giant leap in humanity's evolutionary process, and we must embrace the true nature of our interdependence with this fragile planet and all life within its biosphere. Ron will show us how to discover our purpose, detoxify our divisive culture and become a "white blood cell" in a growing immune response to heal our world. Ron will present a blueprint to build a restorative and positive future for all.
We have traditionally built robust architectures by trying to avoid mistakes or failures in production, or by testing parts of the system in isolation. However, modern techniques take a very different approach: embracing failure instead of trying to avoid it. Resilient architectures enhance observability, leverage well-known patterns such as graceful degradation, timeouts and circuit breakers but also new patterns like cell-based architecture and shuffle sharding. In this session, will review the most useful patterns for building resilient software systems and especially show the audience how they can benefit from the patterns.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a French computer engineer and entrepreneur. Major contributor to the VideoLAN project and the VLC software, he’s one of the Open Source leading figures. He advocates for a free Internet. Multi-skilled, technical and straightforward, Jean-Baptiste loves to shake things up, to challenge established things and never misses a chance to speak his mind. He'll tell you the tale of VLC, the most downloaded French software."
A lot of time Privacy of my data as a user is not a priority for Developers. Whether it’s my calendar, my contacts, my location, I want as a user to be able to use an app without all of those attacks in my privacy. I want to summarize some things an iOS developer should do to ensure the most critical user can still use my app in some regards, and not just say “I need all your information”. This is the beauty of iOS, being able to fine grain (although not enough) so let’s do this all together, as a beautiful community concerned by Privacy. We’ll review some very old APIs and focus on the last changes in iOS.
JAMstack is everywhere lately. It’s supposed to be the messiah that saves us from monolithic application architectures that have difficulties with scaling, performance and security. To prepare this talk I spend my evenings building an app to see if JAMstack is indeed the way to go. It’s called “Strava Visualize” and it’s based on JAMstack. I chose to use the fanciest stuff to build it: a PWA with Vue.js, Azure functions, Azure CDN, Gitlab-CI and the Strava API. In this talk I explain JAMstack and the basics of cloud architecture. JAMstack is a great approach to create scalable, fast and secure web applications. It has some drawbacks though. Check this talk out to see if it lives up to the hype.
"What do you mean, you’re not a SaaS company? I don’t get it.” It’s not too much to say that the world moved to SaaS, or at least software companies did. It would make no sense today to create an “on-premises” startup for technical or business purposes. Despite this transition, we cannot deny that the “on-premises” is still alive and forecasted to stay. Moving to SaaS can be a tough decision for large companies, especially for technical, security, and political reasons. Naturally, these same reasons represent a great opportunity for “on-premises” startups. Of course, there are good reasons for moving to SaaS, which means it can be very challenging if you decide not to. However, this is what Dataiku did. During this talk, we will discuss the reasons why software companies can choose “on-premises” deployment, how they can deploy it, what obstacles they may face, and how Dataiku tackled these challenges.
If we look at Finite State Machines (FSM), we can find a number of examples everywhere in the world that surrounds us. There are vending machines, subway entrance turnstiles, heating systems, self-driving cars, elevators, etc., but also many, many cases of UI frameworks like Android's UI lifecycle (arguably a finite state machine). The concept of FSM and its mathematical computational model are very interesting to implement in many programming languages. With Kotlin's recent investment in asynchronous programming tools, it seemed like a good time to look into it.
Contenda uses cohort analysis for valuation and prediction. Traditional models around cohort analysis and retention prediction are all for B2B, mostly e-commerce situations where rich data is readily available. What happens when the data doesn't exist, or when it's inconsistent? I will explain how we build our data pipelines, solve various types of data problems, and train our clustering algorithm.
Sébastien will present how to improve software maintainability, security and readability by applying the fundamental idea of "Functional Programming". Examples will cover all the modern web application spectrum from front-end code to database design.
Humanity faces an unprecedent crisis that threatens all life of Earth. Desert storm fighter pilot and NASA astronaut Ron Garan will address this head-on in his keynote: The Orbital Perspective. Ron will take us on an extraordinary journey through outer space and inner space. From this perspective, Ron will map out a viable path forward - to solve our crisis, we need a giant leap in humanity's evolutionary process, and we must embrace the true nature of our interdependence with this fragile planet and all life within its biosphere. Ron will show us how to discover our purpose, detoxify our divisive culture and become a "white blood cell" in a growing immune response to heal our world. Ron will present a blueprint to build a restorative and positive future for all.
Prioritizing technical debt is a hard problem as modern systems might have millions of lines of code and multiple development teams — no one has a holistic overview. In addition, there's always a trade-off between improving existing code versus adding new features so we need to use our time wisely. What if we could mine the collective intelligence of all contributing programmers and start making decisions based on information from how the organization actually works with the code? In this presentation, you'll see how easily obtained version-control data uncovers the behavior and patterns of the development organization. This language-neutral approach lets you prioritize the parts of your system that benefit the most from improvements so that you can balance short- and long-term goals guided by data. The specific examples are from real-world codebases like Android, the Linux Kernel, .Net Core Runtime and more. This new perspective on software development will change how you view code.
This is an interactive neuroscience-based talk on how technology changes our behaviour and affects our health, thinking, decision-making and creativity if we don’t manage it properly. Dr Anastasia Dedyukhina will share practical tips on how to take charge of technology, and not allow it drive your agenda or thinking. She will also discuss social responsibility of developers.
Bio: Ben's been a technologist for 15 years after teaching himself how to code on an amphibious assault ship in 2003 while he was serving in the Royal Marine Commandos. Since then he's been a hands on functional programmer and leader of tech teams in industries from finance to start ups.
With close to 60 data scientists and deep learning engineers (an the same amount of developer), preligens own one of the largest Deep Learning team in France. Since our founding 5 year ago, we learnt what to do (and not do) to build a tiers 1 team in AI and Deep Learning, how to retain talent and how to grow them. In this talk we will share some experience and feedback whereas they are tech or managerial and maybe help you navigate in the complexity of the AI talent world.
The search engine Ecosia is not only the biggest European search engine but also one of the biggest tree planting organizations on the planet. Ecosia's founder Christian will tell you more about his unusual company. He will also explain why technology won't solve climate change, and why he decided to give his company to a foundation instead of selling it for many millions.
In recent years, new large self-supervised language models, such as GPT3, have taken the world by storm. These models represent a new paradigm in how to build and use AI and open up swathes of new powerful applications. What makes these new models different, and what does the future hold? What potential, and what risks, does this technology bring?
Humanity faces an unprecedent crisis that threatens all life of Earth. Desert storm fighter pilot and NASA astronaut Ron Garan will address this head-on in his keynote: The Orbital Perspective. Ron will take us on an extraordinary journey through outer space and inner space. From this perspective, Ron will map out a viable path forward - to solve our crisis, we need a giant leap in humanity's evolutionary process, and we must embrace the true nature of our interdependence with this fragile planet and all life within its biosphere. Ron will show us how to discover our purpose, detoxify our divisive culture and become a "white blood cell" in a growing immune response to heal our world. Ron will present a blueprint to build a restorative and positive future for all.
Timeflux is a free and open-source framework for the acquisition and real-time processing of biosignals. Use it to bootstrap your research, build brain-computer interfaces, closed-loop biofeedback applications, interactive installations, and more. Written in Python, it works on Linux, MacOS and Windows. Made for researchers and hackers alike.
Audio and music are everywhere in our everyday life : at home, at work, when we go shopping, in our cars etc. The vast majority of the apps on our mobile devices use audio in some way, and yet, most of us programmers are not aware of the ins and outs of audio programming. In this workshop, we will introduce you to the challenges audio programmers face daily. The objective of the workshop will be to code an audio mixer in C/C++ -many utility functions will be provided- and compose your own music track.
What is the next way we interact with technology? The input source is getting closer and closer to the brain. Alex Castillo will share how Neurosity empowers the mind with JavaScript and AI. There is an evolution taking place in how humans interact with their computing devices. In 1985 when Apple introduced the Macintosh, consumers began using a mouse instead of only their keyboards to interact with their personal computers. Today, where would we be without a mouse, trackpad or touchscreen? We are on a path, and at Neurosity, we are working on the next logical step; interacting with our devices through our minds.
The web is built on top of RESTful APIs. The way we build Apps usually involves consuming a RESTful API that we communicate with over HTTP. We design contracts for those APIs to define the way they work and, to have a formal spec for them, the Swagger IDL was proposed back in 2011 to become the OpenAPI Spec in 2016. At Vercel we love NodeJS and we built almost every service in our system on top of it. We felt the need of having a spec for our API but of course, we never wanted to write it manually. There is almost no support to auto-generate an OpenAPI Spec in the NodeJS ecosystem but since the wide adoption of static typing, it became possible to write a generator for this purpose. In this talk, we will explore the reasoning behind having an OpenAPI Spec at Vercel and what are exactly the problems it solves. We will see how we built a static analyser tool that allowed us to infer a Spec from the implementation of our APIs and how we integrated it using Vercel in our workflow to get alerted on API changes.
RATPDev runs multiple transit networks worldwide. They are in need for a single solution to allow transit operators to easily broadcast traffic alerts over multiple communication channels (Twitter, Facebook, email, SMS, Google Maps…). Unpredictability and high throughput make it a perfect fit for a serverless architecture. In this talk, I’ll share my personal experience during the development of this application, the challenges I faced when understanding serverless paradigms compared to a classic infrastructure. I’ll also go in details on the implementation of this application using an Event Sourcing architecture implementation with AWS using DynamoDB and EventBridge.
What is randomness? How can we recognize it? How can we make it? How can we use it to make games and secure our systems?
At Adobe we build products for the world, this talk with provide a high level overview of internationalization (i18n), globalization (g11n), and localization (l10n) learnings. Overall we’ll discuss why these are important and how best to implement in design, UX, and within the codebase - using JavaScript code examples and 3rd party library recommendations.
You may often wonder which technology is better for your mobile customer needs. You are right, there is plenty of amazing solutions: programming languages, frameworks, best practices, design patterns… Finding the right solution can often lead you to huge headaches and it won't get any easier. So what is the future of mobile development? On which framework should you invest? What are the most used tools? What is the most appreciated solution in developer communities? Actually, these questions are not what you're really supposed to dig into.
We're going to learn how they work and build one as we learn. We'll also look at how JIT compilers are implemented along with Virtual Machines, and if we have time we'll build a small JIT compiler too!
What is the next way we interact with technology? The input source is getting closer and closer to the brain. Alex Castillo will share how Neurosity empowers the mind with JavaScript and AI. There is an evolution taking place in how humans interact with their computing devices. In 1985 when Apple introduced the Macintosh, consumers began using a mouse instead of only their keyboards to interact with their personal computers. Today, where would we be without a mouse, trackpad or touchscreen? We are on a path, and at Neurosity, we are working on the next logical step; interacting with our devices through our minds.
We work in an industry where we judge one another constantly for being stupid. And yet, there are a million different paths through software development. The skills we don’t need now are necessarily forgotten, or delegated to someone else. And that’s fine. Instead of judging people for their ignorance, let’s help them to feel excited about all the new things they’ll discover. Instead of saying “For God’s sake, you don’t know that?” let’s say “Fantastic! Lucky you. You get to learn something. What can I do to help?”
Do you know how some software development teams are afraid to deploy their code to production, and they have to “pray” after each release that it has not so many and not so critical bugs? Do you know how some business owners are embarrassed to enter the new market because the software their teams produce is so unstable that it’s frantically just a joke?In this talk, you’ll learn how to properly apply practices such as TDD, continuous refactoring, integration, and delivery, get and give feedback on the code, and how you can deploy on Friday evening without fear of being called by your angry CTO to fix broken software over the weekend.
If we call developers “resources”, they get to call managers (us!) “overhead”. But managers are overhead, and bad process is a tax on efficiency (and effectiveness). When process is good, it is indistinguishable from culture. Let’s talk about a different mindset to process - process as a tool for creating change.
What is the next way we interact with technology? The input source is getting closer and closer to the brain. Alex Castillo will share how Neurosity empowers the mind with JavaScript and AI. There is an evolution taking place in how humans interact with their computing devices. In 1985 when Apple introduced the Macintosh, consumers began using a mouse instead of only their keyboards to interact with their personal computers. Today, where would we be without a mouse, trackpad or touchscreen? We are on a path, and at Neurosity, we are working on the next logical step; interacting with our devices through our minds.
You are a Developer interested in knowing more about Kubernetes? Come and see how to deploy a PHP app on Kubernetes! Aurore Malherbes, CTO of Padok, will introduce you to the infrastructure and functioning of Kubernetes, a technology that is becoming a standard. On the agenda: - a detailed step-by-step process to deploy a GuestBook on Kubernetes. - pair programming with Aurore to help you - working in Scrum to discover the methodology
Interested in learning GraphQL? Or having a hard time to get started? Perfect! In this one-day hands-on workshop you'll learn how to setup and use GraphQL in your next JavaScript project. This workshop consists of two parts: First you'll learn how to use a GraphQL server with Apollo Server and play around with the endpoint using GraphQLi. After the "backend" part is covered, you'll create a frontend application using React and Apollo that can extract and mutate data using GraphQL easily.
We have booked all our speaking slots thanks to you! However, we created Before DevBreak, a series of online talks where inspiring tech leads share stories on how their companies overcame technical challenges.
Our first guests will be Dashlane’s VP of Engineering and vandebron’s Engineering Team Lead. If you want to tell your story to our community of 100,000+ tech experts, just click the button below!
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