SkillsCasts
SkillsCasts
Explore our library of tech talks on the topics that truly matter to today's developers. Learn from the top minds behind the tools you're trying to master.
Every year we help organise hundreds of expert-led talks at conferences and meetups -- and since 2011 we've been preserving them in our free online library of SkillsCast videos. Dive into topics like Functional Programming, Agile methodologies, Java, Cloud & DevOps, Machine Learning, JavaScript, Architecture and so much more.
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Evolutionary Architecture
Featuring Matt Belcher
Join Matt Belcher and explore the concepts behind Evolutionary Architecture. You will come away with an understanding of how to start building an Evolutionary Architecture, the engineering practices you’ll need and some pitfalls to watch out for along the way.
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Agile During the Time of Jesus
Featuring Abid Quereshi
In this tongue in cheek talk, Abid Quereshi explores the reaction to tradition and power structures and an attempt to help us see ourselves through the lens of Rome, 33BCE.
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What an Architect Can Learn from Retrospective Failures
Featuring Aino Vonge Corry
Based on 15 years of experience with facilitating retrospectives for software developers, I have described the most common challenges in antipatterns.
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Event-Driven Microservices: The Sense, Nonsense and a Way Forward
Featuring Allard Buijze
Learn the promises made and if microservices delivered, how microservices technology evolved and impacted decisions, and what it means to be event-driven.
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Technologies for Microservices
Featuring Eberhard Wolff
Many say: "Microservices are small REST services" — but the technology choice for microservices is much bigger. This talk provides an overview of various approaches and when to use them.
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Minimum Viable Migrations (MVM), A Path to Cloud Modernization
Featuring Ben Ellerby
Most teams take an Agile approach to day-to-day engineering, but for migration projects this strategy goes out the window. In this talk, Ben Ellerby explores how a focus on Minimum Viable Migrations allows assumptions to be tested faster, increased team focus and better value to customers.
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Service Mess to Service Mesh
Featuring Rob Richardson
Join Rob Richardson for this introduction (or reintroduction) to service mesh. Through live demos of both Istio and Linkerd, Rob explains why (and why not) to use this popular infrastructure layer.
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CI/CD Agility and Controlling Pipeline Sprawl
Featuring Angel Rivera
In this talk, Angel will discuss the common pain points associated with existing CI/CD platforms — such as the issue of “Pipeline Sprawl” — attendees will learn technical strategies to develop optimized pipeline configurations and diminish potentially costly vendor-lock in.
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Designing Loosely Coupled Microservices
Featuring Chris Richardson
An essential principle of the microservice architecture is loose coupling. Ignoring this principle is a surefire way to becoming yet another "microservices failure story”. In this talk you will learn about the different kinds of coupling, how to minimize design time and increase the...
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Event-Driven Autoscaling on Kubernetes with KEDA and Azure Functions
Featuring Erwin Staal
Event-driven, serverless architectures are a hot topic in today’s cloud-native application development. In this demo-filled session, I'll introduce you to KEDA. KEDA is a component that provides event-driven autoscaling
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NodeJS, ML, K8s and Unethical Face Recognition
Featuring Joel Lord
Inspired by the show Black Mirror, Joel Lord set out to see if he could build an app to "rate" people. This talk is about all the tech he used to create it... and also on why you shouldn't build it.
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Taming Dependabot: Keeping Microservices up to Date
Featuring Chris Eyre
In this talk, Chris Eyre looks at how he uses "dependabot" to manage 70 GitHub repositories.
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Evolving to Cloud Native
Featuring Nathaniel T. Schutta
This talk will explore the strategies, tools, and techniques you can apply as you evolve towards a cloud native future.
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Kubernetes: A Gateway Drug for Vendor Lock-in
Featuring Ernesto Garbarino
Many organisations believe to be betting on interoperability by choosing Kubernetes rather than, what they believe to be, a proprietary platform. However, this could be a trap that can easily lead to vendor lock-in.
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How Cities Heal: Minneapolis 2021
Featuring Lynn Langit
Lynn Langit explores the role of Cloud Native tech plays in recovery for a wounded city? With COVID, civil unrest, a struggling economy and bitter political division impacting the globe, are there considerations or lessons we can all apply?
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Process Automation in Cloud-Native Architectures
Featuring Bernd Rücker
In this talk Bernd Ruecker will foster your understanding of how (business) processes can generally be implemented and monitored, as he compares different approaches. You'll see the impact on agility, what's different in modern architectures, plus learn about choreography and...
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The Death of Silos
Featuring José Huerta
We have all been victims of poor collaboration. How is it that if everyone wants what is best for the organisation, we can’t seem to agree on how to achieve it? In this talk, José Huerta explores the causes of this phenomena and shares lessons learned from trying to address it.
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Theorems for Free
Featuring Lars Hupel
We can extract a lot of information from type signatures. But how does it work? In this talk Lars Hupel will revisit Philip Wadler's influential (and very cool) paper "Theorems for free!".
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Comparing Strict and Lazy
Featuring Arnaud Spiwack
Strict and lazy languages are often pitted against each other but rarely honestly compared. Let's take a step back from the slogans and examine the trade-offs between lazy and strict. Not which is best: how they compare.
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