Confreaks Courses

A Blueprint for Making Scary Choices

Develop a framework for evaluating and making life-altering decisions, drawing insights from personal experiences in both professional and personal realms.

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

Ruby Programming Lightning Talks - 7 Topics in 26 Minutes

Explore diverse Ruby topics through lightning talks, covering gems, community dynamics, immutability, Makefiles, and more. Gain insights from expert developers in quick, engaging sessions.

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

The Pursuit of Happiness - Applying Scientific Studies to Life and Careers in Tech

Explore scientific studies on human happiness and apply insights to life and tech careers, enhancing personal well-being and professional satisfaction.

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

Who Wants to Be a Ruby Engineer?

Explore Ruby's quirks through an interactive game show, guessing code outputs and uncovering language intricacies for a chance to win prizes.

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

Caching Strategies on DEV.TO

Explore caching strategies for optimizing website performance, focusing on Dev.to's approach to enhancing user experience through effective content delivery.

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

Let's Extract a Class: The Single Responsibility Principle and Design Patterns

Explore the Single Responsibility Principle and design patterns for better code organization, readability, and maintainability in Ruby development.

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

Don't Forget the Humans - Building Reliable Socio-Technical Systems

Aprenda a aplicar princípios de confiabilidade de sistemas à vida pessoal e profissional para prevenir burnout e melhorar o bem-estar.

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

The Death of DevOps Has Been Greatly Exaggerated, but Platform Engineering Is Here To Stay

Explore the future of DevOps and platform engineering, examining shifts in infrastructure, reliability, and product that reshape engineering roles and career paths in operations and SRE.

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

Breaking Up Isn't Hard to Do: Separating Releases from Deploys with Feature Flags

Explore OpenFeature for risk reduction, faster delivery, compliance support, and experimentation in DevOps using vendor-neutral feature flags.

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

9 Things You Should Do When Starting to Use SLOs

Discover 9 essential strategies for effective SLO implementation, including measuring meaningful metrics, defining actions, and adopting open standards to maximize value and overcome common challenges.

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

Modern Application Debugging: An Introduction to OpenTelemetry - DevOpsDays NYC 2023

Explore OpenTelemetry for modern application debugging. Learn to instrument microservices, collect metrics, traces, and logs, and analyze telemetry signals using open-source tools like Jaeger and Prometheus.

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

Who Owns What: Ownership Culture While Blitzscaling

Discover strategies for maintaining clear ownership and accountability during rapid company growth, ensuring effective team objectives and SLOs.

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

There's More to Open Source than Code

Explore diverse non-code contributions to open source projects, from documentation to community management. Learn how your unique skills can strengthen the open source ecosystem.

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

DevEmoOps: An Emotionally Integrated Approach to the Software Development Lifecycle

Explore DevEmoOps: integrating emotional aspects into software development for enhanced resilience, collaboration, and effective engineering practices.

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

How to Make Kubernetes Rhyme with Production Readiness

Explore essential steps to make Kubernetes production-ready, covering cluster decisions, logging, metrics, ingress, network policies, and deployment automation tools.

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