Tech Talks Weekly #1: TDD and DDD From Ground Up, Java Virtual Threads vs Kotlin Coroutines, Design Patterns Misconceptions, Keynote by Linus Torvalds, Real World Fraud Detection, ...

Most watched tech talks in the last week.

Happy Thursday 👋

Welcome to the #1 issue of Tech Talks Weekly newsletter!

There are scarcely any conferences in December, yet the following list proves the opposite!

Below you can find the most viewed talks across the conferences I’m following at the moment in the last couple of weeks.

Enjoy!

⭐️ Most watched recent talks

1. "Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel" ⸱ +33k views ⸱ 00h 30m 49s

2. "10 Learnings From Running Production Infrastructure at Google • Christof Leng • GOTO 2023" ⸱ +12k views ⸱ 00h 38m 35s

3. "Exceptionally Bad: The Misuse of Exceptions in C++ & How to Do Better - Peter Muldoon - CppCon 2023" ⸱ +11k views ⸱ 01h 03m 24s

4. "Don’t Do E2E Testing • Dave Farley • GOTO 2023" ⸱ +7k views ⸱ 00h 17m 46s

5. "Design Patterns - The Most Common Misconceptions (1 of N) - Klaus Iglberger - NDC TechTown. 2023" ⸱ +6k views ⸱ 00h 43m 15s

6. "Distributed Ranges": Model for Building Distributed Data Structures, Algorithms & Views - Ben Brock" ⸱ +4k views ⸱ 00h 54m 24s

7. "Correcting Common Async/Await Mistakes in .NET 8 - Brandon Minnick - NDC Porto 2023" ⸱ +4k views ⸱ 00h 58m 24s

8. "TDD & DDD from the Ground Up - Chris Simon - DDD Europe 2023" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 01h 01m 20s

9. "The Art of Humble Views: Testing React Native Apps the Smart Way - Mo Khazali, TestJS Summit 2023" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 00h 21m 50s

10. "Zhao & Qiao - Graph Neural Networks for Real World Fraud Detection | PyData Amsterdam 2023" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 00h 24m 13s

11. "Voxxed Days Thessaloniki 2023 - Don't Walk Away From Complexity, Run by Venkat Subramaniam" ⸱ +900 views ⸱ 00h 57m 35s

12. "Voxxed Days Thessaloniki 2023 - Async Showdown: Java Virtual Threads vs. Kotlin Coroutines" ⸱ +900 views ⸱ 00h 43m 56s

13. "Overcoming people-pleasing tendencies to become a stronger engineering leader | Nikita Rathi" ⸱ +700 views ⸱ 00h 18m 34s

14. "Making the move to manager: Common pitfalls for new engineering leaders Jacqueline Pan & Marlena Lui" ⸱ +200 views ⸱ 00h 12m 09s

15. "Benjamin Kadel - PRACTICAL ADB USAGE TO ENHANCE YOUR LIFE! | Droidcon Italy 2023 Talk" ⸱ +200 views ⸱ 00h 38m 41s

16. "GeeCON 2023: Bartosz Wieczorek - Large-Scale Distributed Processing in Google Cloud - 7 lessons..." ⸱ >1 views ⸱ 00h 56m 04s

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p.s. here’s my top 2023 talks compilation: