NDC Conferences Courses

Mentoring Junior Developers Into Productive Team Members

Practical mentoring approaches help junior developers build trust, understand team processes, and grow into independent, positive contributors.

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

Creating a Best Place to Work Culture

Practical strategies for shaping a workplace culture that attracts talent, engages employees, and encourages collaboration.

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

Getting Started with Chaos Engineering

Learn how deliberately breaking distributed systems can reveal weaknesses and build confidence in their production behavior.

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

Vertical Slice Architecture

Explore how organizing software around vertical slices changes code structure, request handling, business logic, and testing across common application types.

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

Writing a Neural Net from Scratch

Build an image-recognition neural network from the ground up in C#, tracing how it learns without libraries.

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

Betting on Evolutionary Architecture

James Lewis explores how rapid architectural change enables small, hypothesis-driven bets instead of locking design decisions in at project start.

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

Sifting Technologies - Separating the Wheat From the Chaff

A practical framework for weighing software technologies, avoiding risky platform choices, and responding when a technology reaches a dead end.

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

Get Value Out of Your Monad

A monad’s value provides a route to combining dependency injection with C# async/await without leaky abstractions.

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

What We’ve Learned From Billions of Security Reports

How a security reporting platform scaled from 10,000 reports a month to 10,000 a second, and what its broad view revealed about threats.

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

Linux Security APIs and the Chromium Sandbox

Explore how Linux security and isolation APIs are used to build the Chromium Sandbox.

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

Taking Testing to the Next Level

Use Frida’s dynamic instrumentation to reach hard-to-reproduce production failures, build a granular C++ memory sanity checker, and retrofit testable interfaces into running code.

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

Everything You Want to Know About C - C++ Pre-Processor but Couldn't Ask

Explore how the C/C++ preprocessor can approach Turing completeness, working around its restrictions to implement FizzBuzz entirely in preprocessor directives.

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

Using Seccomp to Limit the Kernel Attack Surface

Seccomp filters use compact BPF programs to restrict which system calls a Linux application can make and which arguments it can pass.

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

What I Talk About When I Talk About Cross Platform Development

The Salami Method separates platform-specific concerns into thin layers so one C++ codebase can target desktop and web platforms.

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

What Do We Mean When We Say Nothing At All?

Explore how deliberate omissions in C++—from missing keywords to absent punctuation—can communicate design intent to readers.

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