Conference Talks

Devoxx

Building Streaming Microservices with Apache Kafka

See how services collaborate through events and use Kafka Streams to join and process data within an asynchronous core.

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

Devoxx

Design Patterns Revisited in Modern Java

See how Java’s evolving capabilities let familiar design patterns become natural ways to solve common design problems.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

CppNow

Effective CMake

Learn to structure CMake projects so libraries, dependencies, tests, and packages work cleanly across platforms.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

RSA Conference

When Cybercriminals with Good OpSec Attack

A case study of how the FBI and Symantec investigated a career cybercriminal gang despite strong operational security.

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

NDC Conferences

Programming’s Greatest Mistakes

A light-hearted tour of costly programming failures, exploring how software bugs caused financial losses, engineering disasters, and near-catastrophe.

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

NDC Conferences

Ctrl-Alt-Del - Learning to Love Legacy Code

Learn how to understand and safely improve unfamiliar legacy codebases through refactoring, testing, continuous integration, and production visibility.

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

JSConf

In The Loop

A visual explanation of how the browser event loop schedules JavaScript, events, microtasks, and rendering—and why setTimeout workarounds can fail.

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

JSConf

JavaScript Engines - How Do They Even?

A look inside JavaScript engines explains just-in-time compilation and how to write JavaScript that works well with a compiler.

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

JSConf

A Cartoon Intro to WebAssembly

A cartoon-led introduction to WebAssembly explains how language translation and runtime design help it run quickly in browsers.

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

JSConf

Immutable Data Structures for Functional JS

See how persistent data structures reuse unchanged parts of objects to make efficient immutable updates in functional JavaScript.

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

JSConf

So How Does the Browser Actually Render a Website

A tour of how browsers turn HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into pixels—and why parsing, layout, and painting choices affect page performance.

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

GOTO Conferences

The Soul of Erlang and Elixir

Explore how Erlang and Elixir’s concurrency model supports building highly available server-side systems, through high-level theory and demonstrations.

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

GOTO Conferences

Don't Walk Away from Complexity, Run

Examines how configuration, mutability, low cohesion, and imperative code make software changes harder, and how developers can avoid that accidental complexity.

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

GOTO Conferences

Functional Programming in 40 Minutes

A practical introduction to functional programming that demystifies techniques such as immutability and higher-order functions.

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

GOTO Conferences

Containers From Scratch

Liz Rice live-codes a container in Go to show how Linux namespaces and control groups shape container isolation.

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