nor(DEV):con 2026
I’ve just returned from nor(DEV):con, an event I previously went to a few years ago.
Designing Services That Stand The Test Of Time
Stop Testing! (My Patience)
by Ryan Healey
Modular Monoliths And Other Facepalms
Debugging Your Imposter Syndrome
by Vickie Allen-Collier
Learn How To Learn
Translating Business Metrics Into Meaningful User Outcomes
How We Support Deploying Multi-Cloud Apps At Stack Overflow
NDC London 2026
After a three year hiatus, last week I returned to the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster to attend NDC London.
As I’ve done before, I was part of the crew helping out at the event. In exchange for a free ticket, you help out with the setup and registration of attendees, and spend 50% of each day room monitoring. While I did not know most of the crew when I turned up, we formed our own little community within the conference and got to know each other in just a few days.
.Net Meets MCP - Build Your Own AI-Powered Service With C#
Advanced Pattern Matching In C#
10 Tips To Level Up Your AI Assisted Coding
Modern .Net Configuration Practices
Notebooks And .Net
Immutable Patterns Of System Design
Progressive Collapse
Application Performance Optimisation In Practice
Modular Code
Optimising HttpClient Usage
Code That Writes Code - .Net Source Generators
AI-Powered App Development
Supercharging Local Development With Aspire
DDD South West 13
As is becoming customary each April, I did my annual trip to DDD South West last weekend. Another really good event.
Surviving Complexity Through Software Design
Modern Software Architecture Review Best Practices
by Steven Read
Why Am I Being Such A Git About Best Practices?
A Developers Guide To Getting The Most Out Of Containers
Mutation Testing
Let’s Ship This Thing!
StaffPlus London 2024
After previously attending last year’s inaugural event, I recently went back to StaffPlus London. This year was compèred by Suhail Patel, one of the speakers from 2023.
Influencing Through Getting Your Carrots In A Row
Architecting For Scale And Simplicity
by Segun Viktor Orekoya
Deming’s Wisdom For Staff+ Engineers: A Modern Take On Timeless Principles
Filling The Void: Operating As A Staff Engineer In A Leaderless Scope
by Sami Farhat and Guillaume Mazollier
Doing “The Most Important Thing” Is A Trap
Letting The Best Ideas Win
by Tristan Heal
Sunsetting Legacy: Navigating The Shop Merchant Eligibilty Data Pipeline Migration
Navigating Complex Projects: Finding The Right Mode Of Operation
Understanding Complex Systems Without Simplifying Them
by Rita Sodt
Have AI Got News For You
Is Staff Engineering Valuable At A Small Company?
Fitness Functions: Creating Consistency Across 100s Of Services
DDD South West 12
I attended the latest DDD South West last weekend. It’s become one of my favourite of the DDD events, partly because of the venue and the relaxed feeling of the conference, but also because of Bristol - one of my favourite cities in the UK.
#FAIL
Confident Communication For Developers
by Aaron Green
An Above Average Tech Ecosystem
Celibrate You’re Misteaks
Debugging: More Than Breakpoints And Log Analysis
Rest, gRPC, GraphQL Or Asynchronous Messaging
