NDC Conferences Courses

Practical Advice for Building Glorious Monoliths

Discover how to build robust, maintainable monolithic architectures with strategic design principles, effective data separation, and architectural patterns that make development a joy rather than a burden.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Getting to 300 Million Requests a Month with a One Man AI/DevOps Team

Discover how one developer scaled StoryGraph to handle 300 million monthly requests, sharing practical strategies for infrastructure optimization, growth management, and leveraging open-source tools with minimal resources.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Who Tests Their Cloud Code Anyway?

Discover various testing options in Azure for cloud applications, from A/B testing to performance and architecture testing, with practical demonstrations and no more excuses for skipping tests.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Inside the Breach: Secrets Exposed

Delve into high-profile data breaches with Troy Hunt as he reveals vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and the surprising secrets exposed when security fails.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Past, Present, and Future of AI for Application Developers

Explore the evolution of AI in software development, from early systems to modern LLMs, with practical examples of implementing intelligent features in your applications and insights into future UI paradigms.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

How Rome2Rio Split Up Their Monolith and Moved to the Cloud

Discover how Rome2Rio migrated from a monolith to cloud-based services, covering .NET framework conversion, code splitting techniques, cloud deployment challenges, and performance optimization strategies.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Mirror, Mirror: LLMs and the Illusion of Humanity

Explore the fascinating claims about LLMs showing human-like traits, understand why we anthropomorphize these models, and learn how recognizing their true nature helps us utilize them more effectively.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

What's New in .NET 9 and C# 13

Discover the latest enhancements in .NET 9 and C# 13, including Spans improvements, HybridCache, System.Text.Json updates, Base64Urls, ASP.NET Core 9, and .NET Aspire changes for improved performance and development.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Design Engineering: The Next Era of Software Design

Explore the evolution of design and programming roles with Diana Mounter as she shares insights from leading GitHub's design team and discusses how AI is reshaping the boundaries between design and engineering.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Correcting Common Async/Await Mistakes in .NET 9

Discover how to optimize async/await in C# by understanding .NET's compilation process. Learn to improve performance, handle exceptions better, and reduce app size by correcting common mistakes in async code.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Mobile App Architecture: How to Conquer the Giant!

Explore mobile app architecture strategies beyond "Hello World" examples, comparing frameworks and approaches for native, hybrid, and mobile web solutions in enterprise-level projects.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Team Temperature: How to Control High Engagement, Prevent Burnout and Navigate Human-Related Risk

Discover practical tools for managing team dynamics, increasing engagement when needed, and preventing burnout in agile environments through proven methods from experienced tech leadership.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Your Developer's Intelligence Isn't Artificial

Discover a strategic approach to tech hiring that prioritizes attitude over skills, focusing on learning culture, retention, coaching, and growth to build sustainable teams without entering bidding wars for senior talent.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Power of Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces

Explore Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces for consistent, reproducible development environments across platforms. Learn fundamentals, integration, practical configuration, and customization techniques to transform your development workflow.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Blazor Multiverse: Get to Know the Different Blazor Frameworks

Explore the Blazor Multiverse and understand the different frameworks including WebAssembly, Server, Hybrid, United, and Mobile Bindings, learning when to use each variant effectively.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video