Conference Talks

NDC Conferences

How Complexity Theory Can Save Your Job

Use complexity theory to recognize when a requested software feature is simple, hard, or effectively impossible before committing to build it.

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

NDC Conferences

How We Got Here - The History of Web Development

Trace how the Web evolved from a document-sharing protocol into today’s applications through the tools and techniques that shaped its development.

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

NDC Conferences

Correcting Common Mistakes When Using Async - Await in .NET

Explore how the .NET compiler handles async code and how small changes can prevent bugs and improve performance.

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

NDC Conferences

Vertical Slice Architecture

Explore how organizing software around vertical slices changes code structure, request handling, business logic, and testing across common application types.

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

NDC Conferences

Writing a Neural Net from Scratch

Build an image-recognition neural network from the ground up in C#, tracing how it learns without libraries.

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

NDC Conferences

Get Value Out of Your Monad

A monad’s value provides a route to combining dependency injection with C# async/await without leaky abstractions.

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

NDC Conferences

C++ Unit Testing - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Learn how unit testing tools and practices can help control C++ code, catch defects, prevent regressions, and test difficult legacy code.

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

NDC Conferences

Fuzzing with AFL

Learn how AFL uses feedback to find bugs, from building a test corpus and running a fuzzer to tuning performance and triaging findings.

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

NDC Conferences

Integrate Python and C++ with pybind11

Learn how pybind11 exposes existing C++ libraries as Python modules, with code examples for building hybrid applications.

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

NDC Conferences

What Can C++ Do for Embedded Systems Developers

Explores how modern C++ abstractions and resource management can remain efficient and reliable across different kinds of embedded systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Simple Guide to Secure SDLC

A concise overview of eight ways to build security into the software development lifecycle, from training and design reviews to testing.

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

NDC Conferences

Four Languages from Forty Years Ago

Four older languages—SQL, Prolog, ML, and Smalltalk—show how programming ideas from the 1970s can still inform modern development.

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

NDC Conferences

Building Event-Driven Microservices with Event Sourcing and CQRS

See how replaying business events preserves history and auditability while shaping read and write models for an invoice app.

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

NDC Conferences

The Psychology of Social Engineering

Explore how social engineering uses human error, trust, stereotypes, and everyday habits to influence people and gain access.

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

NDC Conferences

An Introduction to CQRS and Event Sourcing Patterns

A practical introduction to CQRS and event sourcing, showing a first working solution for applying the patterns in a real-world project.

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