NDC Conferences Courses

Don't Build a Distributed Monolith - How to Avoid Doing Microservices Completely Wrong

Learn to recognize and avoid implementation mistakes that turn microservices into distributed monoliths.

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

You Keep Using That Word - Asynchronous and Interprocess Comms

Examines how differing meanings of “asynchronous” in distributed systems create confusion about service communication.

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

Use Your Source Code to Document Your Application

Generate application diagrams and stakeholder-facing documentation from source code using Roslyn, including aggregate structures and application flows.

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

Uno Platform - Your Apps Everywhere

Uno Platform lets developers build C# and XAML apps with shared UI and device access across mobile, desktop, and web targets.

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

Testing in Production

Testing features against live production behavior uses feature flags, canary releases, and data cleanup to improve confidence before releases.

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

Understanding Probabilistic Data Structures with UFO Sightings

A UFO-sighting dataset provides the running example for learning compact, approximate structures, including a Top-K analysis of its most common words.

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

Ethical Machine Learning

A practical case for treating ethics and risk as part of machine learning development from the outset, since models can amplify human prejudice.

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

Block DNS Exfiltration with Dnsmasq Proxy

See how attackers use DNS to exfiltrate data—and how a dnsmasq sidecar can restrict backend DNS lookups.

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

Security as Code - A DevSecOps Approach

See how security checks can be codified and run in CI/CD pipelines to catch vulnerabilities and misconfigurations early.

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

How AI is Impacting Cybersecurity - Does It?

A technical look at AI’s mixed impact on cybersecurity, from detecting attacks to the risks and limitations of relying on AI for defense.

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

Attacking Through the Software Supply Chain

Real-world supply-chain attacks reveal how dependencies and third-party software widen the attack surface, followed by frameworks and guidelines for reducing organizational exposure.

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

Building Distributed GraphQL APIs

Learn how teams can own parts of a GraphQL graph independently while delivering a unified API.

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

Accessibility - How to Get the Job Done in a Highly Collaborative Manner

Designers, developers, and customers share how they worked together to meet new accessibility regulations.

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

Web Accessibility Deep Dive

Explore how invisible disabilities and neurodiversity shape accessible web experiences, using hands-on tools to test and improve websites.

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

The Chips and Pickle Story - What's Really Behind Infamous, Historic UI Failures

A tour of notorious interface failures shows how seemingly minor design quirks can expose deeper process problems and produce outsized consequences.

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