How ‘Design as Code’ works with build pipelines and React components

Programming Stage — 20 minutes React

Design Systems with tokens are completely changing how designers collaborate with front-end development. 
No longer just digitally native giants like Spotify and Netflix, but now also companies with multiple technology platforms and multiple brand identities benefit from it. In the session, we will showcase the transformative power of design tokens for efficient and integrated front-end development.  We will demo how design components’ branding for icons, fonts, colors, and spacing from Figma can be packaged and applied directly to React and Web components through GitHub actions. 
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• Fredrik Hagstroem [Chief Technology Officer — Emergn]

Cloud-native application development in the age of AI

Programming Stage — 45 minutes Artificial Intelligence Cloud

The cloud-native ecosystem is evolving at a fast pace, and the introduction of AI and machine learning is accelerating the pace of innovation.
In this talk, we will explore how AI is changing the way we build and operate cloud-native applications, and how the cloud-native ecosystem is evolving to support the new requirements. We will also discuss how AI is being used to improve the developer experience, and how it can help us build better applications. We will guide thru an introduction to what cloud-native applications are and why they're quickly getting the lion share of developers' hearts and minds; we will discuss how open source foundations like the Cloud Native Computing Foundation are ushering a new era of collaboration and innovation, and how the ecosystem is evolving to support this new paradigm. We will then discuss how AI and machine learning are changing the way we build and operate cloud-native applications, and how you can keep the pace in this fast evolving ecosystem.
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• Alessandro Vozza [Founder — Kubespaces.io]

Mastering database magic: unveiling the Travel Search Engine with PostgreSQL at Revolut

Programming Stage — 20 minutes Data

Discover the secrets behind our cutting-edge Travel Search Engine powered by PostgreSQL.  Boon Pek, our tech lead, will delve into the technical sorcery that makes it all possible.
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• Kheng Boon Pek [Software Engineer (Backend) — Revolut]

The future of software development

Programming Stage — 45 minutes

• Gary Crawford [Chief Innovation Officer — Waracle]

You should build an SDK

Programming Stage — 40 minutes

We’ve all come across them, buried among all the third-party libraries we use to make modern applications in every framework and for every language.  SDKs are part of the bread and butter that developers consume, but have you ever thought of making one for yourself? This talk aims to make you say “YES”, we’ll cover what they are, why you should care, and most importantly why you should consider making one (with a few caveats of course). We’ll also go over the options for making them, and the best practices you should have in mind to maintain them and even open source them (if possible)! Read More...

• Mike Elsmore [Developer Advocate — Infobip]

Networking Lunch

Programming Stage — 1 hour

Building a concurrency library on top of Loom

Programming Stage — 45 minutes Loom

Project Loom for the JVM significantly enriches our development toolbox: we get lightweight threads, an asynchronous runtime with direct syntax, plus a set of low-level APIs for structured concurrency. Using these basic building blocks, what else might a developer do than use them to build a developer-friendly, Loom-focused structured concurrency library? Let's see how this might play out. Expect a lot of code! We'll use Scala, a flexible, functional language ideally suited to define elegant abstractions.  Read More...

• Adam Warski [CTO — SoftwareMill]

Building a passwordless app in Microsoft Azure

Programming Stage — 40 minutes Azure

For decades, we have used passwords and tokens for authentication and authorization. 
They come with challenges and are often the weak point of a solution. Join this session to find out how to build a passwordless cloud solution.
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• Radu Vunvulea [Group Head of Cloud — Endava]

UX of data. 2023 edition.

Programming Stage — 45 minutes Data

Big data. Thick data. Good data. Bad data. 
For the past decade, we keep talking about the “data as the new oil,” data as the driver behind successful companies. A whole data economy of companies offering data solutions, promising to transform us into data-centric, KPI-driven, uber-optimized commercial machines.But you know what, working with data is a complex love affair. One that often ends in tears (read: millions of $ lost), before it properly kicks off.In this talk, we’ll take a peek into the world of industrial data with its challenges and opportunities. Data quality being the big elephant in the room, and user experience (UX) design an unexpected contender to tame it. Read More...

• Damjan Obal [Head of design — Ardoq]

Software Engineering at Google: What's the Secret?

Programming Stage — 20 minutes Software engineering

• Ignacio Blanco [Senior Staff Software Engineer — Google]

Why clean code is not the norm?

Programming Stage — 45 minutes Clean Code

Why clean code is still the exception and not the norm? 
An intriguing question I read recently. Most of the answers are so human but also so wrong. It's them! The project managers, the junior developers...

Project managers care only about delivering more and more features, while they don't even understand what technical debt is, not to mention clean code. At the same time, the amount of new developers is increasing rapidly, they don't learn how to code in a clean way and obviously, there cannot be enough senior developers to mentor them.

These answers are so human but so wrong. Blaming others is never the answer. We - developers - need to take responsibility and warn the stakeholders around us that doing things right is important to the business. Even as individual contributors, we have to raise our voices. Sometimes we have to say no, maybe sometimes we'll even have to step aside and look for another project. After all, if management doesn't trust you in how you do your job why should you work there?

Clean code is hard. It requires effort and discipline while it's easier to be lazy and not care. We need a framework, we have to push ourselves and others to keep improving all the time. Driving these initiatives pays off both individually and on a team level.

Keep in mind that the responsible is always us. Never them. We have to raise our voices, we have to explain and educate. That's the only way towards more maintainable and reliable software. As software controls more and more aspects of our lives, it's not "only" a matter of professional pride!
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• Sándor Dargó [Senior Engineer — Spotify]

Networking Lunch

Masterclasses — 1 hour

Harnessing the Power of Jira and xRay for Documentation

Masterclasses — 1 hour

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• Florin Manolescu [Founder and CTO — Academia Testarii]

Funding your startup vs investing in startups

Masterclasses — 1 hour

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We will dive into the startup ecosystem with practical knowledge of: how to become an angel investor, what investors look for in startups, how to raise funding from angel investors and venture funds. Read More...

• Mircea Vadan [Member — Transylvania Angels Network and Cluj Startups]

Empowering through diversity - the good, the bad and the ̶u̶g̶l̶y̶ hard one

Masterclasses — 1 hour

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• Ioana Chiorean [Senior Engineering Manager — Interledger Foundation]