Conference Talks

NDC Conferences

Plain Text

A tour of the hidden assumptions behind plain text, from mechanical teletypes to encoding bugs and practical rules for handling text in software.

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

NDC Conferences

GraphQL, gRPC or REST? Resolving the API Developer's Dilemma

Compare GraphQL, gRPC, REST, and Webhooks to choose an API style that fits the application and supports a better developer experience.

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

NDC Conferences

New Features in C

Explores newer C standard features that many programmers overlook, from inline functions and designated initializers to extended integer types.

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

NDC Conferences

Correcting Common Async - Await Mistakes in .NET

Trace how .NET compiles async methods to improve exception handling and optimize an app’s async code for speed and size.

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

NDC Conferences

Email vs Capitalism, or, Why We Can't Have Nice Things

A tour of email’s layered hacks, from DNS authentication and MIME to rendering quirks that make modern messages hard to get right.

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

NDC Conferences

Top 5 Techniques for Building the Worst Microservice System Ever

A comic tour of five ways to turn microservices into distributed-system disasters, from tangled network dependencies to ill-advised rewrites.

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

NDC Conferences

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

NDC Conferences

Functional Architecture - The Pits of Success

Shows how functional programming makes sound architectural and testing practices natural, creating “pits of success” for developers.

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

NDC Conferences

Domain Driven Design - The Good Parts

A pragmatic look at domain-driven design that focuses on consensus, cohesive models, and useful boundaries instead of implementation arguments.

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

NDC Conferences

Docker, FROM Scratch

Starting from minimal Docker knowledge, the course explains core container concepts and shows how Docker can support development as well as DevOps.

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

NDC Conferences

Functional Design Patterns

Surveys functional programming patterns from partial application and currying through monads and monoids.

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

NDC Conferences

Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters

A production postmortem shows how poor service boundaries turned a monolith rewrite into a slow distributed monolith, and how clearer ownership restored a robust system.

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

NDC Conferences

Clean Coders Hate What Happens to Your Code When You Use These Enterprise Programming Tricks

Examines how everyday coding habits and design assumptions can compound accidental complexity and make enterprise codebases balloon.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NahamSec

The Bug Hunter's Methodology v4.0 - Recon Edition

A presentation of Bug Hunter’s Methodology v4.0 focused on reconnaissance for bug hunters.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

JSConf

The Power of JS Generators

See how JavaScript generators pause and resume to produce and consume data series, enabling lazy sequences, custom iterables, animation, and asynchronous patterns.

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