NDC Conferences Courses

Autonomous Microservices Don't Share Data. Period

A story-driven case for ending shared data between microservices to preserve service autonomy.

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

Reading Other Peoples Code

A methodical way to approach an unfamiliar codebase and understand the programmers behind it.

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

Quantum Computing Concepts

Explore quantum computing fundamentals, its potential and practical limits, and write a little quantum code without advanced mathematics or condensed matter physics.

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

Dungeons, Dragons and Functions

Explore how Dungeons & Dragons rules can be modeled as a complex domain using F# and functional programming.

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

Fantastic Mr. Function

A light-hearted introduction to functional programming uses JavaScript live coding to trace ideas back to the beginnings of computing.

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

A Practical Guide to Dashboarding

A practical tour of building useful application dashboards, from extracting telemetry to choosing metric patterns and avoiding visualization anti-patterns.

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

Code the Future, Now

Explore how to move time-dependent business requirements out of brittle batch jobs and into code that can scale alongside everyday application logic.

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

Async Injection

A monadic approach to combining dependency injection with async and await in C# without leaky abstractions.

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

Pragmatic Performance - When to Care About Perf, and What to Do About It

A pragmatic guide to deciding when performance matters and benchmarking .NET code well enough to trust the results.

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

A Skeptic's Guide to Functional Style Javascript

Understand functional programming terms in JavaScript and learn when patterns such as purity, currying, and higher-order functions are useful.

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

Tabs, Spaces and Salaries - A Data Science Detective Story

A data science investigation into why developers using spaces appear to earn more—and how correlation, model fitting, and bias can mislead.

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

APIs Exposed

Explore the risks of exposing API endpoints and ways to secure them as applications move beyond the monolith.

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

Dungeons, Dragons and Functions

Explore how F# and functional techniques can turn Dungeons & Dragons rules into a practical domain-modeling exercise.

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

Let's Talk About Mental Health

A talk on why developer burnout and anxiety aren’t inevitable, with mental-hygiene techniques and ways to discuss support with coworkers.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

DevSecOps for Developers - How To Start

Shows developers how to strengthen security by adapting existing DevOps tools, workflows, and incident practices when a dedicated security team is limited.

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