DDD Reading 13
At the weekend, I went down to Reading to attend DDD 13. Hosted at Microsoft’s offices the DDD Reading event is the mother of all of the DDD events, with the first one held back in 2005.
Here are the sketchnotes I took of the talks I attended.
Quantum Computing: Don’t Panic
by Anita Ramanan Twitter and Frances Tibble Twitter
Web Assembly, Blazor, And The Future Of Web Development
by Joseph Woodward Website Twitter
From Monolithic Monster To Majestic Microservice App
by Callum Whyte Website Twitter Slides
Automate Your Test Infrastructure With Kubernetes
DDD South West 8
I attended DDD South West at the weekend in Bristol. As usual, it was a great event.
Here are the sketchnotes I took of the talks I attended.
Outside-In TDD
by Ian Russell Website Twitter
Give It A REST - Tips For Designing And Consuming Public APIs
by Liam Westley Website Twitter
Kubernetes For .Net Developers
by Shahid Iqbal Website Twitter Slides
Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks
by Ismail Mayat Website Twitter
Patterns And Practices For Building A Better Web API Architecture
by Joseph Woodward Website Twitter
Cambridge Alexa Devs Meetup
I recently attended the inaugural meetup of the Cambridge Alexa Developers Group held at Amazon’s Cambridge office. The group was set up by Bob Harris and Rich Merrett, who both gave talks on building Alexa skills and SSML.
David Low, Amazon’s Head of Solutions Architects, also gave a talk about how to best create a skill by working out its user value:
One particlarly interesting thing covered was a formula for working out whether a skill will be a “killer skill”:
| Cusomter value | × | Contexts | × | Frequency | × | Multipliers |
| Complexity | × | Friction |
The higher the output of this formula, the higher the likelihood that a skill will be succesful.
While this talk wasn’t recorded, he has given a similar talk before that was.
NDC London 2018
Last week I attended NDC London. It’s not the first time that I’ve been, but it is the first time I’ve done the workshops that run alongside the main conference.
I attended the “Identity & Access Control for modern Applications and APIs using ASP.NET Core 2” workshop hosted by Dominick Baier and Brock Allen. This was a two day workshop consisting of a mixture of presentation, discussion, and hands-on labs. It dived deep into the security aspects of modern ASP.Net applications, specifically the application itself and its APIs. The first day focused on how external authentication (via OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect) could be used to save having to implement authentication yourself in your application. The second day took this further and focused on how to secure an API that you may have in an application so that you can call it server-to-server, from mobile applications, or from JavaScript applications.
The remaining three days of the conference was in the form of talks. Like I’ve done before, I sketchnoted many of the sessions that I attended.
What Is Programming Anyway?
by Felienne Hermans Website Twitter Video
The Power Of Technical Decisions
by Jake Ginnivan Website Twitter Video
You Build It, You Run It
by Chris O’Dell Website Twitter Video
An Introduction To Kotlin
by Dmitry Kandalov Website Twitter Slides Video
Composite UIs: The Microservices Last Mile
by Jimmy Bogard Website Twitter Slides Video
Designing For Speech
by Jessice Engström Website Twitter Video
Jewelbots: How To Get More Girls Coding
by Jennifer Wadella Website Twitter Slides Video
Who Needs Dashboards?
by Jessica White Website Twitter Slides Video
Pilot Decision Management
by Clifford Agius Twitter Video
A Developer’s Guide To Machine Learning
by Tess Ferrandez-Norlander Website Twitter Slides Video
CSP XXP STS PKP CAA ETC…
by Scott Helme Website Twitter Video
Web Apps Can’t Do That, Can They?
by Steve Sanderson Website Twitter Video
These are the other talks I attended but didn’t sketchnote:
C# 7.0
by Jon Skeet Website Twitter Video
C# 7.1 and 7.2: The Releases You Didn’t Know You Had
by Bill Wagner Website Twitter Video
The Psychology Of Social Engineering
by Niall Merrigan Website Twitter Video
The Modern Cloud
by Scott Guthrie Website Twitter Video
The Hello World Show Live
hosted by Heather Downing and Spencer Schneidenbach Website Video
Tips And Tricks With Azure
by Scott Guthrie Website Twitter Video
Why I’m Not Leaving .Net
DDD North 7
I recently attended DDD North 7 in Bradford. I’ve been wanting to take up sketchnoting for a while now, but have never gotten round to doing it, so when Ian Johnson (go check out his sketchnotes - they are great) prompted me to take my sketchbook and pens with me, I reluctantly obliged. I’m so glad I did though as I really enjoyed doing them, and I feel it had the effect of me being able to recall much more of the content of each talk. I tweeted the sketchnotes after each session and got a great response from both the speakers and attendees.
Here are the sketchnotes I did during the day.
Microservices: What I’ve Learned After A Year Of Building A System
by Nathan Gloyn Website Twitter Slides
Spot The Difference: Automating Visual Regression Testing
by Viv Richards Website Twitter Slides
Married To The Mob (Programming)
by Derek Graham Website Twitter Slides
How To Parse A File
by Matt Ellis Website Twitter Slides
Alexa, Open Sneezaroo…
by Zinat Wali Twitter
