Tech Talks Weekly #12 🎉

2024-05-02: Featuring React Miami 2024, Conf42 Golang 2024, GOTO 2024 and 2023, NDC London 2024, Vue.js Live 2024, try! Swift Tokyo 2024, LeadDev West Coast 2023, and many more!

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Welcome to the 12. issue of Tech Talks Weekly! We’ve got tons of freshly uploaded talks from React Miami 2024, Conf42 Golang 2024, GOTO 2024 and 2023, NDC London 2024, Vue.js Live 2024, try! Swift Tokyo 2024, LeadDev West Coast 2023, and many more!

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🏆 Featured talks of the week

Here are the must-watch talks uploaded since the last issue:

1. "System Design: Simple But Common Mistakes | Kirill Parasotchenko | Conf42 Golang 2024" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 13m 51s

   A concise walkthrough of the most common pitfalls you can run into when working with backend services. This talk covers idempotent request handling, sending external requests within a DB transaction, retries, rate limiting, and more.

2. "Better hiring with code review assignments - Lorenzo Saino at LeadDev West Coast 2023" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 22m 29s

   A 20-minute lightning talk about conducting code review interviews where instead of sending a take-home assignment or scheduling a live-coding session, candidates are asked to review a pull request.

3. "Common Mistakes in Golang and How to Avoid Them | Dmitry Korolev | Conf42 Golang 2024" ⸱ +200 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 30s

   This is a nice talk that goes over the common mistakes when working with arrays/slices, channels, goroutines, strings, defer, sync/atomic packages, etc.

4. "Matheus Albuquerque - A Decade: React’s Rhapsody of Life - React Miami 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 26m 26s

   This session explores React's past, present, and future, showcasing its influence and exciting innovations to come. (Note: this talk will be available on May 4th)

5. "Keep your nose out of it. Denying yourself access to production - Glenn F. Henriksen" ⸱ +900 views ⸱ 30 Apr 2024 ⸱ 01h 00m 31s

   This talks shares principles to follow when creating and maintaining a secure production environment without a direct access and presents a pattern for "emergency hatches" for when you really need it.

📆 All new uploads

Here’s a list of all the recently uploaded talks since the last issue grouped by conference and ordered by the number of views for your convenience.

1. React Miami 2024

1. "Matheus Albuquerque - A Decade: React’s Rhapsody of Life - React Miami 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 26m 26s

2. "Carter Rabasa - Taylor Swift and the Democratization of AI for Developers - React Miami 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 06s

3. "Jenny Truong & David Khourshid - useWat² - React Miami 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 56s

4. "Sam Selikoff - Incomplete React - React Miami 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 28m 58s

5. "Sylwia Vargas - Background Jobs 101: Building Reliable Apps with Inngest - React Miami 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 23m 41s

6. "Facundo Giuliani - Pushing Boundaries to the Edge - React Miami 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 23m 27s

7. "Tony Casparro - Delivering Today without Over-engineering Tomorrow: Decoding the Tech Dilemma" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 11m 07s

8. "Kateryna Porshnieva - Building Accessible Forms in React - React Miami 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 28m 29s

9. "Ben Ilegbodu - 50 Shades of React Rendering with Next.js - React Miami 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 36s

10. "Kent C. Dodds - Stop Lying to your Users - React Miami 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 15m 40s

2. Conf42 Golang 2024

1. "System Design: Simple But Common Mistakes | Kirill Parasotchenko | Conf42 Golang 2024" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 13m 51s

2. "Premiere - Conf42 Golang 2024" ⸱ +400 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 12m 06s

3. "Using Nix to create reproducible Golang development environments | Haseeb Majid | Conf42 Golang 2024" ⸱ +300 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 32m 07s

4. "Common Mistakes in Golang and How to Avoid Them | Dmitry Korolev | Conf42 Golang 2024" ⸱ +200 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 30s

5. "How Go taught me to love building apps again | Andrew Williams | Conf42 Golang 2024" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 18s

6. "Make your service more resilient in case of traffic spikes | Ivan Lemeshev | Conf42 Golang 2024" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 00s

7. "How to test your code with Testcontainers in Go | Julien Breux | Conf42 Golang 2024" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 20m 06s

8. "Go Performance Unleashed | Marco Marino | Conf42 Golang 2024" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 06s

9. "Revolutionize Go Microservices with GoFr.dev | Aryan Mehrotra | Conf42 Golang 2024" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 11m 30s

10. "Go-ing Serverless with WebAssembly | Thorsten Hans | Conf42 Golang 2024" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 38m 40s

3. Vue.js Live 2024

1. "We May Not Need Component Testing - Maya Shavin, Vue.js Live 2024" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 01 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 26m 02s

2. "Building a Better Hammer - The Story of Nuxt 4 - Daniel Roe, Vue.js Live 2024" ⸱ +700 views ⸱ 01 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 23m 05s

3. "10 Years of Vue: the Past and the Future - Evan You, Vue.js Live 2024" ⸱ +600 views ⸱ 01 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 25m 09s

4. PyData

1. "Yuri Orshulevich - LLM-Generated Text Detection" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 27 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 51m 56s

2. "PyConDE & PyData Berlin 2024 Kuppelsaal Day 3" ⸱ +400 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 19m 34s

3. "PyData Chicago April 2024 Meetup | Learning Collective Behaviors from Observations" ⸱ +300 views ⸱ 26 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 38m 31s

5. GOTO 2024 and 2023

1. "Adaptive Architectures • Marty Pitt • GOTO 2023" ⸱ +9k views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 35m 18s

2. "How Technical Problems Cause Organizational Friction • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2023" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 01 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 00s

3. "10 Reasons to Try Kotlin Multiplatform • Pamela Hill • GOTO 2023" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 26 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 48m 45s

4. "Future Currency • Stefan Tilkov, John Davies, Lars Hupel, Olivier Rikken & Sven Johann • GOTO 2023" ⸱ +700 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 55m 10s

5. "Cloud Native Spring in Action • Thomas Vitale & Josh Long" ⸱ +600 views ⸱ 26 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 46m 27s

6. "Your AI Survival Guide • Sol Rashidi & Joe Reis • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +200 views ⸱ 02 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 32m 41s

6. NDC London 2024

1. "How to fall in love with TDD - Gui Ferreira - NDC London 2024" ⸱ +3k views ⸱ 26 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 51s

2. "Architecture Modernization: Aligning Software, Strategy, and Structure - Nick Tune" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 47m 32s

3. "Hannes LowetteBuild software like a bag of marbles, not a castle of LEGO® -" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 54m 04s

4. "Separating fact from fiction in a world of AI fairytales - Jodie Burchell - NDC London 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 26 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 55m 49s

5. "Continuous Delivery for Legacy Code - Richard Groß - NDC London 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 27 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 48m 37s

6. "REST, gRPC, SignalR and GraphQL for .NET developers - François Bouteruche" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 27 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 30s

7. "Workflows of Highly Functional App & Data Engineering Teams - Jerry Nixon" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 30 Apr 2024 ⸱ 01h 04m 33s

8. "How GitHub delivers GitHub using GitHub - April Yoho - NDC London 2024" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 30 Apr 2024 ⸱ 01h 06m 18s

9. "Designers vs Developers: Who is in control here? - Lemon 🍋 - NDC London 2024" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 53m 34s

10. "Keep your nose out of it. Denying yourself access to production - Glenn F. Henriksen" ⸱ +900 views ⸱ 30 Apr 2024 ⸱ 01h 00m 31s

7. ElixirConf EU 2024 and Code BEAM Europe 2023

1. "Keynote: Rethinking Serverless with FLAME - Chris McCord | ElixirConf EU 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 30 Apr 2024 ⸱ 01h 04m 03s

2. "The Design Principles of the Elixir Type System - Guillaume Duboc | Code BEAM Europe 2023" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 28 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 39m 16s

3. "Craft your domain-specific query language with NimbleParsec and Ecto - R. Binetti | Code BEAM Europe" ⸱ +800 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 20m 53s

4. "Update from the OTP Team - Ingela Andin | Code BEAM Europe 2023" ⸱ +800 views ⸱ 26 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 12m 11s

5. "Code as infrastructure in the BEAM ecosystem - Jade Allen | Code BEAM Europe 2023" ⸱ +600 views ⸱ 01 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 38m 12s

6. "BEAM: The Perfect Fit for Networks - Andrea Leopardi | Code BEAM Europe 2023" ⸱ +500 views ⸱ 01 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 10s

8. try! Swift Tokyo 2024

1. "try! Swift Tokyo 2024 - Cultivating a Sense for Designing Great Applications" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 28 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 52s

2. "try! Swift Tokyo 2024 - Automation for App Localization" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 28 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 22m 50s

3. "try! Swift Tokyo 2024 - Building a Smaller App Binary" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 28 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 21m 55s

4. "try! Swift Tokyo 2024 - Big Little Wins for You or Your App" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 28 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 22m 54s

5. "try! Swift Tokyo 2024 - HelloSwift.EXE: Writing a Windows Application as a non-Windows Developer" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 28 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 12s

6. "try! Swift Tokyo 2024 - Code Signing - Have Fun and Take Control" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 28 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 16m 06s

7. "try! Swift Tokyo 2024 - Transforming Language Learning with AI: A Deep Dive into Duolingo’s AI Tutor" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 28 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 20m 43s

8. "try! Swift Tokyo 2024 - Building Apps for visionOS with Swift" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 28 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 26m 39s

9. "try! Swift Tokyo 2024 - What Can We Do Without AI in the Future?" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 28 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 19m 23s

10. "try! Swift Tokyo 2024 - Build your next website with Swift" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 28 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 28m 46s

9. Data Science Conference Europe 2023

1. "An AI assistant for football tactics | Petar Velickovic | DSC Europe 23" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 26 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 35s

2. "Striving for transformation | Tamara Osoba | DSC x OTP" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 15m 49s

3. "Brain-Computer Interfaces: Ethical issues and resolutions | Kevin LaGrandeur | DSC Europe 23" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 32s

10. LeadDev West Coast 2023

1. "Better hiring with code review assignments - Lorenzo Saino at LeadDev West Coast 2023" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 22m 29s

2. "Doing the right thing, better: How to lead with efficiency in mind - Lena Reinhard at LeadDev West Coast 2023" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 43s

3. "Breaking the burnout cycle in engineering teams - Shelly Stuart at LeadDev West Coast 2023" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 25m 21s

4. "Mascot-Driven Development: Building a high-performing team ourer ship licentity - Luis Vega at LeadDev West Coast 2023" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 25m 25s

5. "Understanding organization structure tradeoffs - Adam Berman at LeadDev West Coast 2023" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 09s

6. "From monolith to micro: How to break apart a front-end application - Thayse Onofrio at LeadDev West Coast 2023" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 23m 15s

7. "Why shifting left is so important for software developers - Jemiah Sius at LeadDev West Coast 2023" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 21m 56s

8. "Putting power into practice as a staff+ engineer - Matthew Hawthorne at LeadDev West Coast 2023" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 21m 33s

9. "Systemic leadership for software teams - Francisco Trindade at LeadDev West Coast 2023" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 30m 03s

11. PyCon US 2023

1. "Lightning Talks - April 21, 5pm" ⸱ +300 views ⸱ 30 Apr 2024 ⸱ 01h 00m 27s

12. WASM I/O Barcelona 2024

1. "Design Systems in Wasm: One year on the bumpy road to the component model by P. Dureau / J. Valverde" ⸱ +800 views ⸱ 26 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 09s

2. "Capabilities all the way down - an OS for WASM by Sid Hussmann @ Wasm I/O 2024" ⸱ +600 views ⸱ 27 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 30m 13s

3. "Building next generation of stream computation engine using Component Model by Sehyo Chang @ Wasm IO" ⸱ +600 views ⸱ 25 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 35m 48s

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