💥 Tech Talks Weekly #18

2024-06-13: Featuring all the newly uploaded talks from Spring I/O 2024, Devnexus 2024, LeadDev Berlin 2023, JCON Europe 2024, J On The Beach 2024 and many more!

Jun 13, 2024

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Welcome to the 18. issue of Tech Talks Weekly! This time around, we have plenty of new uploads from 15 conferences including Spring I/O 2024, Devnexus 2024, LeadDev Berlin 2023, JCON Europe 2024, J On The Beach 2024 and many more!

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🏆 Featured talks of the week

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

"Creating Future-Proof Spring Applications with Event Sourcing by Steve Pember @ Spring I/O 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 06 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 54m 39s
Based on over eight years of experience with building ES systems in Spring applications, we will demonstrate the basics of Event Sourcing and some of the common patterns. We will see how simple it can be to model events with available tools like Spring Data JPA, JOOQ, and the integration between Spring and Axon. We’ll walk through sample code in an application that demonstrates many of these techniques. However, it’s also not strictly about the code; we’ll see how a process called Event Modeling can be a powerful design tool to align Subject Matter Experts, Product, and Engineering. Attendees will leave with an understanding of the basic Event Sourcing patterns, and hopefully a desire to start creating their own Journals.
"Growth in a downturn | Smruti Patel | LeadDev Berlin 2023" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 09 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 03s
It has been a rough year for tech, and especially our leaders - our Staff+ ICs and our engineering managers. We are reeling from the after-effects of rapid growth and zero-interest-rates, and have been forced into survival mode. If hyper-growth is marked by spending more to make more, what does building for enduring growth look like? What are key pivots and strategies needed to effectively navigate such different times?
"Are Signals worth the hype? - Atila Fassina | JSHeroes 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 50s
Signals are all the rage nowadays. A lot has been said about the performance benefits, but that’s not all it is. Let’s talk about how signals provide a better mental model to render user interfaces, and how they make developing apps more predictable and, likely, error-free.
"Building hacking tools in JavaScript - Charlie Gerard | JSHeroes 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 33s
If we follow Atwood’s Law, “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript”. As I started studying cybersecurity in my personal time, I noticed that the tools available to hackers are usually coded in C, C++ or Python but, as a front-end developer, I started wondering… Wouldn’t it be cool to rebuild some of these tools in JavaScript instead?! In this talk, I will show how I rebuilt a famous tool to hack wireless devices using only Web APIs so you can hack doorbells, garage doors and more right from the browser!
"Type-Safe Style Systems: The Future of CSS - Josh Goldberg | JSHeroes 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 53s
Most CSS developers today write visual styles in terms of what you literally see: exact color values, size numbers, and so on. But what if you could write styles as a function of how they fit into your design system? And what if you could get type safety in specifying and using those values, including in responsive props? This talk will dive into some of the key features and flaws in many design system builders today such as Chakra UI and Tailwind. We’ll establish what the best next steps for design systems should be with type-safe TypeScript APIs and performance both for prebuilt pages and at runtime. The Vanilla Extract and Rainbow Sprinkles projects together are a great way to try this out now, and I’m hopeful for more efforts.

📆 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.

11. EuroPython 2024

"EuroPython 2024 - First-Time Speaker's Workshop" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 13 Jun 2024 ⸱ 01h 01m 14s

12. J On The Beach (JOTB) 2024

"Bridging the Gap: The Convergence of Transactional and Analytical Data Héctor Veiga & Colin Breck" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 07 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 28m 54s
"Streaming on a prayer or Call Me Maybe - Sergey Bykov - JOTB24" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 07 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 32m 16s
"Fueling Product-Led Growth: A Journey Beyond Traditional Streaming - Bianca Costache - JOTB24" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 06 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 00s
"Data Analyst 2 0: Leverage AI to boost your career -Ismael Pineda - JOTB24" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 06 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 12m 18s

13. JCON Europe 2024

"DBless Data Processing: EclipseStore & WebSphere Liberty InstantOn | Markus Kett & Mark Stoodley" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 06 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 58m 10s
"Structured Concurrency in Java - The What and the Why | Balkrishna Rawool (EN)" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 10 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 32s
"Reading Code | Marit van Dijk (EN)" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 11 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 49m 28s
"Move Thoughtfully and build things | Sharat Chander (EN)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 07 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 26m 30s
"Hibernate: Mapping Strategies and Their Database Performance Impact | Franck Pachot (EN)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 02s

14. JSHeroes 2024

"Building hacking tools in JavaScript - Charlie Gerard | JSHeroes 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 33s
"Untangling Your Dependencies: A Pattern for a Well-Knit JavaScript Project - Carmen Huidobro" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 40s
"You are an AI engineer - Tejas Kumar | JSHeroes 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 19s
"MPA View Transitions are here! - Bramus Van Damme | JSHeroes 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 32m 37s
"Beyond Skeuomorphic Markdown - Rodrigo Pombo | JSHeroes 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 50s
"Are Signals worth the hype? - Atila Fassina | JSHeroes 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 50s
"Making Minimal Techno with WebAssembly And a C Compiler - Tero Parviainen | JSHeroes 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 28m 41s
"Type-Safe Style Systems: The Future of CSS - Josh Goldberg | JSHeroes 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 53s
"Standard-driven API mocking - Artem Zakharchenko | JSHeroes 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 16m 48s
"Reimagining web layout for accessible multilingual content - Rose Akoth | JSHeroes 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 12 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 19m 45s

15. Berlin Buzzwords 2024

"Danica Fine – Brick-by-Brick: Exploring the Elements of Apache Kafka®" ⸱ +200 views ⸱ 10 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 42s
"Juliane Waack – Accelerating TopK Queries" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 10 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 19m 50s
"Stefana Serban – Synergy of Signals: Traffic Logs Meet LLM Labels" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 10 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 22m 18s
"Atita Arora – Cracking the Code: Deciphering Evaluation Essentials for RAG" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 11 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 22m 21s
"Praveen Mohan Prasad, Hajer Bouafif – Rediscover your keyword search: Expand, Enrich and Rewrite" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 11 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 19s
"Teo Narboneta Zosa, Chingis Oinar – Robust AI Search Ranking for Radical C2C Marketplace Growth" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 11 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 43m 43s
"Doug Turnbull, Charles Njoroge – Learning to Rank for Reddit Search: A Project Retro" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 10 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 34s
"Murhaf Fares, Emanuele Lapponi – Hardcoding airpods (and other stories from NLP in insurance)" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 58s
"Radu Gheorghe, Rafał Kuć – Heap sizing and GC tuning for Solr and friends" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 10 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 21m 06s
"Mingshi Liu, Owais Kazi – Elevating AI Applications with OpenSearch's Flow Framework and RAG Tool" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Jun 2024 ⸱ 00h 26m 59s

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💥 Tech Talks Weekly #18

2024-06-13: Featuring all the newly uploaded talks from Spring I/O 2024, Devnexus 2024, LeadDev Berlin 2023, JCON Europe 2024, J On The Beach 2024 and many more!

🏆 Featured talks of the week

📆 New uploads

1. Spring I/O 2024

2. LeadDev Berlin 2023

3. Devoxx Greece 2024

4. Devneuxs 2024

5. GOTO 2024

6. NDC Sydney 2024

7. API Conference Berlin

8. Lambda Days 2024 and Code BEAM Europe 2023

9. Conf42 Observability 2024

10. Data Science Conference 2024