NDC Conferences Courses

Open Source is Broken, and it's Our Fault

Discover how to support sustainable open source development and prevent maintainer burnout through practical team practices and individual actions that strengthen your dependencies.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Neo4j for the Relational .NET Developer

Discover how to transition from SQL Server to neo4j graph database as a .NET developer, covering setup, connections, and Cypher queries in this practical introduction.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Learning Not Leaning - How Developers Can Accelerate Their Learning with AI

Discover how to transform AI coding assistants into powerful learning tools that enhance problem-solving skills and accelerate developer growth through strategic experimentation.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Playing the Long Game - AI Tools and the Future of Software Engineering

Explore AI's impact on software development careers, from hype to reality, and discover strategies for building sustainable engineering skills in an LLM-dominated landscape.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Fun Side of Advanced TypeScript - An Interactive Coding Session

Explore TypeScript's weirdest features through interactive coding - from recursive types to building Wordle with types, discovering powerful tricks beyond basic usage.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Legacy Code

Discover techniques for safely exploring and modernizing legacy codebases without breaking existing systems, using archaeology methods, refactoring strategies, and testing approaches.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

What in the Hunger Games is Happening with Recruitment?

Uncover the broken history of tech recruitment from Edison's interviews to today's dysfunctional hiring practices, plus three practical changes to improve the process.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Great Brain Robbery - Navigating the Dark Future of Online Manipulation

Explore how AI transforms digital manipulation into psychological warfare and learn to defend against evolving cybercrime threats targeting minds and organizations.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Supercharged Testing - AI-Powered Workflows with Playwright and MCP

Discover how to supercharge end-to-end testing by combining Playwright's powerful capabilities with AI-assisted workflows using the Model Context Protocol Server for smarter automation.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Anatomy of an Incident - Featuring CrowdStrike

Explore real-world incident management through the CrowdStrike outage case study, covering preparation strategies, timeline analysis, and lessons learned for future planning.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Bringing Stories to Life with AI, Data Streaming and Generative Agents

Explore building dynamic AI-driven worlds using Apache Kafka, Flink, and Iceberg with generative agents that think, act, and adapt in real-time through live data streams.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Drop the Bass with Embedding and Vectors in Azure AI Search

Explore embedding and vector-based searches in Azure AI Search for text, images, and music, including creating indexes and finding similar beat patterns for seamless track mixing.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

.NET Meets MCP - Build Your Own AI-Powered Service with C#

Discover how to build intelligent AI-powered services using .NET and Model Context Protocol (MCP) in this hands-on session that demystifies creating context-aware servers with C#.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building Identity into LLM Workflows with Verifiable Credentials

Explore securing LLM workflows against spoofing and privilege escalation using W3C Verifiable Credentials, identity patterns, and policy-as-code enforcement for AI systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Supercharging Local Development with Aspire

Discover how Aspire transforms local development environments from frustrating setup nightmares into seamless experiences with .NET tooling, OpenTelemetry insights, and multi-app debugging.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video