NDC Conferences Courses

Web APIs for Delightful Two Factor Auth Experiences

See how autocomplete and the WebOTP API can make SMS-based two-factor authentication on the web more secure and less frustrating.

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

Event Driven Architectures on Azure

A practical look at event-driven architecture pitfalls and myths, with patterns for building loosely coupled microservices on Azure.

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

Azure and Containers - The Tale of the Two Inseparable Friends

Explore the ways to run containers in Azure beyond the commonly suggested Azure Kubernetes Service.

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

Locks Are Tricky — Let's Understand Them by Building One

Explore how locks work and where they can fail by building custom concurrency primitives for synchronous and asynchronous C# code.

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

A11y on the Back End

Explores how backend developers can make software more inclusive, extending accessibility thinking beyond the end-user interface.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Learning from Disaster

Examines how aviation disasters reshaped airline safety and what IT can learn from those failures.

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

Locknote - Programming’s Greatest Mistakes

A tour of programming mistakes that caused explosions, bankruptcies, and years of misery for web developers—and why they happened.

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

Managing the Burnout Burndown

A software leader reframes burnout as a burndown problem and offers practical ways to build resistance and reduce stress.

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

I Fought the Law and the Law Won

A sardonic look at the few software laws programmers benefit from observing, and what happens when they are broken.

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

Using C# Source Generators to Build a .NET IoT Device

Use C# source generators and .NET IoT libraries to connect a Raspberry Pi 4 sensor project to Azure IoT Hub.

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

Kill All Mutants! Intro to Mutation Testing

Learn how mutation testing exposes weaknesses in a test suite by checking whether tests pass when the code is slightly changed.

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

From Rags to Revenue - 5 Years of a Developer Startup

A developer recounts the five-year path from full-time work to startup ownership, sharing lessons on business ideas, profitability, and early-stage challenges.

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

The Curious Incident in Your Software in the Day Time

Plan for unexpected software incidents by assigning response roles and keeping colleagues and customers informed during outages, serious bugs, or security breaches.

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

GitHub Actions - CI-CD and More

See how GitHub Actions workflows work, explore their capabilities, and learn where migrations from Azure Pipelines can get stuck.

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

Video Analytics for Mere Mortals with NVIDIA DeepStream SDK

Shows how NVIDIA DeepStream SDK helps developers build real-time video analytics without designing deep neural networks from scratch.

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