NDC Conferences Courses

A Skeptics Guide to Graph Databases

Explore the pros and cons of graph databases, learn when to use them effectively, and understand their potential pitfalls in solving real-world problems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

System Stable - Robust Connected Applications with Polly, the .NET Resilience Framework

Enhance .NET application resilience using Polly framework. Learn reactive and proactive strategies, from retries to bulkhead isolation, for robust and reliable connected applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Practical Chaos Engineering - Breaking Things on Purpose to Make Them More Resilient Against Failure

Learn to implement chaos engineering on AWS, revealing system failures before they become outages. Discover tools and methods for injecting failures to enhance architecture resilience.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Why FIDO Security Keys & Webauthn Are Awesome

Discover how FIDO security keys and WebAuthn prevent phishing attacks, protect your digital assets, and enhance user security through advanced authentication methods.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Functional Patterns for the Object Oriented

Explore functional programming patterns in OO languages, comparing Haskell approaches with traditional OO solutions. Learn about lambda expressions, stream processing, tuples, and pattern matching.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Automatic Text Summarization

Explore algorithms and tools for automatic text summarization, including extractive and abstractive methods, and learn about evaluation techniques for assessing summary quality.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Why Databases Cry at Night

Explore NoSQL database performance, examining common features' impact and inherent bottlenecks to understand why databases struggle and how to optimize them.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

UX Design Fundamentals - What Do Your Users Really See

Explore key UX design principles, including Gestalt theory, visual perception, and user behavior, to create more intuitive and effective application interfaces.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

All Our Aggregates Are Wrong

Explore e-commerce design challenges, focusing on decomposing complex requirements to build scalable, maintainable systems that align with business needs.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Agility ≠ Speed

Exploring agile development beyond speed, focusing on sustainable pace, working software, and team intelligence for effective software creation and delivery.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Patterns for Resilient Architecture

Explore resilient architecture patterns, including graceful degradation, timeouts, and circuit breakers. Learn chaos engineering methodology to build robust systems by embracing and learning from failures.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Distributed Tracing - How the Pros Debug Concurrent and Distributed Systems

Explore OpenTracing and Zipkin for debugging distributed systems. Learn to instrument applications, visualize operations across services, and enhance performance analysis in microservice architectures.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Small Steps, Giant Leaps - Engineering Lessons from Apollo

Explore Apollo program's engineering innovations, project management techniques, and software development strategies that revolutionized space exploration and remain relevant in modern technology.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Structure and Interpretation of Test Cases

Explore effective unit testing strategies, from naming and nesting to data-driven and property-based approaches. Learn to structure tests for clarity, maintainability, and maximum benefit in software development.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Promise of an Async Future Awaits

Explore common async/await mistakes in C#, best practices, and a deep dive into C# 8's async streams for building efficient distributed systems and microservices.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk