Speaker: Julian Guthrie
Julian Guthrie is an award-winning journalist who spent twenty years at the San Francisco Chronicle and has been published by The Wall Street Journal, Time, The Huffington Post, and others. She is the author of the New York Times best-seller, How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight, with a foreword by Richard Branson and an afterword by Stephen Hawking. The book, just out in paperback, tells the story of Peter Diamandis and his dream of creating a private path to space, the launch of the XPRIZE, and the teams that joined in the hunt to try to make history and launch an industry. The WSJ wrote of the book, “If you admire those who aim really high, How to Make a Spaceship belongs on your bookshelf. [It] offers a rousing anthem to the urge to explore.” How to Make A Spaceship has been optioned for television, and will be produced by Danny Strong and Fox.
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Tracks
Monday, 5 November
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Microservices / Serverless Patterns & Practices
Evolving, observing, persisting, and building modern microservices
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Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking
Practical approaches using DevOps & Lean Thinking
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JavaScript & Web Tech
Beyond JavaScript in the Browser. Exploring WebAssembly, Electron, & Modern Frameworks
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Modern CS in the Real World
Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods, & probabilistic programming
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Modern Operating Systems
Applied, practical, & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualization, including Linux on Windows, LinuxKit, and Unikernels
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Optimizing You: Human Skills for Individuals
Better teams start with a better self. Learn practical skills for IC
Tuesday, 6 November
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, Facebook, Twitter, & more
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21st Century Languages
Lessons learned from languages like Rust, Go-lang, Swift, Kotlin, and more.
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Emerging Trends in Data Engineering
Showcasing DataEng tech and highlighting the strengths of each in real-world applications.
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Bare Knuckle Performance
Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
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Socially Conscious Software
Building socially responsible software that protects users privacy & safety
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Delivering on the Promise of Containers
Runtime containers, libraries, and services that power microservices
Wednesday, 7 November
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Applied AI & Machine Learning
Applied machine learning lessons for SWEs, including tech around TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch, & more
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Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems
More than just building software, building deployable production ready software
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Developer Experience: Level up your Engineering Effectiveness
Improving the end to end developer experience - design, dev, test, deploy, operate/understand.
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Security: Lessons Attacking & Defending
Security from the defender's AND the attacker's point of view
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Future of Human Computer Interaction
IoT, voice, mobile: Interfaces pushing the boundary of what we consider to be the interface
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Enterprise Languages
Workhorse languages found in modern enterprises. Expect Java, .NET, & Node in this track
