NDC Conferences Courses

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Turtle - Functional Programming in Practice

A familiar turtle graphics API is pushed through 13 implementations to show functional programming techniques in practice.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

How to Build Real-World Applications with Orleans

See how Orleans grain, smart-cache, event-sourcing, and streaming patterns address challenges in building cloud services.

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

Becoming an Awesome Open Source Contributor

Learn strategies for effective open source contribution, from finding projects to becoming a maintainer. Discover tools, tips, and best practices for successful collaboration in the welcoming OSS community.

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

What Were They Thinking? Language Design Choices That Seem Wrong, Until They Don't

Explores controversial C# design choices by explaining why the language team made decisions developers still debate.

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

Performance & Stability Anti Patterns

Explore design and technical decisions that make applications fragile, causing crashes or gradual performance and stability problems.

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

A Developers Guide to the UX Galaxy

Use a systematic, research-based framework to predict, detect, and avoid usability failures, illustrated through interface bloopers.

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

Faster & Less Risky Releases with Feature Flags

Learn how feature flags separate deployment from rollout, enabling early access, private betas, canary launches, and dark releases.

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

Microtesting - How We Set Fire to the Testing Pyramid While Ensuring Confidence

A pragmatic testing strategy aims to reduce testing effort while maintaining confidence, using different test types according to how well they support each application.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Functional Programming for the Everyman

Use functional programming techniques in existing imperative codebases through practical examples in C# and JavaScript, without switching languages.

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

Domain Architecture Isomorphism and the Inverse Conway Maneuver

Examines how team communication structures shape software architecture, and how reorganizing teams can help reshape the systems they build.

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

Debugging Your Communication for More Success and Efficiency in DevOps

Learn to spot and reduce communication misunderstandings in cross-functional DevOps teams, with practical techniques to save time and support motivation.

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

Orleans Architecture Patterns

Explore Orleans patterns for cloud services, including smart caches, event-sourced state, streaming analytics, and state machines.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Pacts to the Rescue! Making Your Microservices Play Nicely Together

Use consumer-driven contracts to check microservice interactions and release services independently, without relying on brittle integration tests.

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

The Experimentation Mindset

Explore how an experimentation mindset can help teams move beyond implementation habits to learn and innovate.

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

Practical Microservice Security

Explore how microservice architectures change application security through real-world attacks and defenses involving authentication, permissions, validation, orchestration, and logging.

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