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Upcoming Events
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YOW! Perth Developer Conference 2022: Online
Two days - Online Conference
At YOW! Perth Developer Conference, leading software industry experts from all over the world, handpicked by our program committee, come together for two days to provide amazing networking and learning opportunities.
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Enabling Microservice Success
Featuring Sarah Wells
Microservices can be a very effective approach to speeding up delivery of value to your organisation and your customers. But only if you get them right. In this talk, Sarah Wells shares lessons from her 10 years experience of building and operating microservice architectures at the Financial...
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Software Architecture, Team Topologies and Complexity Science
Featuring James Lewis
Research from the Santa Fe institute on Complex Adaptive Systems over the last 20 years seems to point to a grand unified theory of organisational design. So have we cracked it? Do we now have the answer to the question: how do we create and scale high performing software and organisations?
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Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Microservice Architecture Collaboration Patterns
Featuring Chris Richardson
In this talk Chris Richardson discusses how to balance two opposing forces in microservices architecture: the repulsive forces that drive the decomposition of your application into services, and the attractive forces that resist decomposition and bind software elements together.
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Welcome to the Layouts of Tomorrow
Featuring Erin Zimmer
Historically, layout on the web has been quite difficult. We were basically limited to sizing elements either absolutely, or relative to their parent. And the positioning thing was even worse! As developers, we were forced to rely on hacks and third-party tools like Bootstrap to achieve the...
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My Awful Ex-Datasystems
Featuring Jeffrey Theobald
We've all experienced heartbreak, spent long nights wallowing away in disappointment, entire weeks ruined by the smallest of mistakes, all the time wondering why on earth you keep trying when nothing seems to change. Data systems. They break your heart. In this session we'll dive into...
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How Frontend Platforms Are Helping Us Evolve realestate.com.au
Featuring Stewart Gleadow
As our realestate.com.au audience has grown, so have the teams that build it. In this talk, I’ll present how we’re building and adopting micro frontends, design systems, and tooling together in our frontend platform products to build web and native experiences at scale. I’ll present the drivers...
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What No-Code Teaches Us About Building Software
Featuring Katie Bell
As a developer I've been pretty skeptical of this whole ""no-code"" trend. Sure, maybe you can build a static website or a blog using a template builder but if you want to build a real application and you don't want to get boxed in you'll need to write code, right?...
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The Killer C's: Coupling, Cohesion, and Complexity
Featuring Michael Nygard
The Killer C’s are like cholesterol: there’s the good kind and the bad kind. When the bad kind gets out of control, it can destroy systems and even whole companies. What can we do to lower complexity and harmful coupling? How can we encourage cohesion and healthy coupling? In this talk, Michael...
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Software Architecture for a Digital Age
Featuring Eoin Woods
Software architecture emerged in the 1990s and has been evolving ever since, from a directive, up-front activity, where a single architect created the architecture, which was then implemented by others, to today’s team-based adaptive architectural approaches where architecture is a shared...
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Building Adaptive Systems with Wardley Mapping, DDD, and Team Topologies
Featuring Susanne Kaiser
In a world of rapid changes and increasing uncertainties, organizations have to continuously adapt and evolve to remain competitive and excel in the market.
In such a dynamic business landscape organizations need to design for adaptability. Designing for adaptability requires understanding the...