Conference: Jun 26-28, 2017
Workshops: Jun 29-30, 2017
Track: Culture As Differentiator
Location:
- Salon C
Day of week:
- Monday
Stories of companies and team for whom engineering culture is a differentiator - in delivering faster, in attracting better talent, and in making their businesses more successful.
by Richard Kasperowski
Author of The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness
Open Space
by Sonali Sridhar
Cofounder of the Recurse Center
In this presentation, I’ll focus on some of the ways the Recurse Center has approached building a learning organization from first principles. We've designed our environment with one thing above all else in mind: How to make the best place for people to grow as programmers. Almost everything we do can be traced back to this goal. I’ll start by presenting our pedagogy, the birth of our social rules, and then dig deeper into their impact on both an individual contributor level as well as a...
by John Willis
Director of Ecosystem Development @Docker
There has been a lot of research on the impact of human capital as it applies to organizational performance. Lean management certainly touches on a lot of aspects of human behavior. Resilience engineering has some focus areas related to cognitive bias and certainly the study of Learning Organizations includes a lot human behavior characteristics. In this presentation we are going to look at the vast knowledge of psychological research that could be applied to...
by Swati Vauthrin
Director of Engineering @BuzzFeed
Diversity in the workplace has long been a topic of discussion at Tech companies across the board. Beyond the moral and ethical justifications, we at BuzzFeed feel that the diversity within our culture has provided a big competitive advantage and it’s something we don’t shy away from. Our industry, like all industries, should be open to anyone prepared to join it, and our industry, like most industries, has historically been terrible at inclusivity. But it’s a...
by Sunil Sadasivan
CTO @Buffer
When building a product, it's important to experiment, learn, react, and iterate to achieve success. To build great team chemistry and culture, the same principles apply. At Buffer, alongside product, we started thinking about team chemistry early on. We crafted our own unique culture and learned a lot through our many successful and failed culture experiments over the past five years. Being a globally distributed team and defaulting to transparency (including...
by Will Ballard
CTO @GersonLehrman
Small teams turning into large teams often do more than change size, they change structure. Growing teams often add rules, managers, meetings, processes, and policies aimed at preventing mistakes rather than capturing the best outcomes.
Join me for a discussion on a set of constraints that differs from everything you have been told, focusing on freedom, responsibility, and what it really takes to get talent.
Tracks
Monday, 13 June
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Case studies from: Google, Linkedin, Alibaba, Twitter, and more...
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Stream Processing @ Scale
Technologies and techniques to handle ever increasing data streams
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Culture As Differentiator
Stories of companies and team for whom engineering culture is a differentiator - in delivering faster, in attracting better talent, and in making their businesses more successful.
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Practical DevOps for Cloud Architectures
Real-world lessons and practices that enable the devops nirvana of operating what you build
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Incredible Power of an Open-Sourced .NET
.NET is more than you may think. From Rx to C# 7 designed in the open, learn more about the power of open source .NET
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Sponsored Solutions Track 1
Tuesday, 14 June
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Better than Resilient: Antifragile
Failure is a constant in production systems, learn how to wield it to your advantage to build more robust systems.
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Innovations in Java and the Java Ecosystem
Cutting Edge Java Innovations for the Real World
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Modern CS in the Real World
Real-world Industry adoption of modern CS ideas
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Containers: From Dev to Prod
Beyond the buzz and into the how and why of running containers in production
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Security War Stories
Expert-level security track led by well known and respected leaders in the field
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Sponsored Solutions Track 2
Wednesday, 15 June
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Microservices and Monoliths
Practical lessons on services. Asks the question when and when to NOT go with Microservices?
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Modern API Architecture - Tools, Methods, Tactics
API-based application development, and the tooling and techniques to support effectively working with APIs in the small or at scale. Using internal and external APIs
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Commoditized Machine Learning
Barriers to entry for applied ML are lower than ever before, jumpstart your journey
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Full Stack JavaScript
Browser, server, devices - JavaScript is everywhere
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Optimizing Yourself
Keeping life in balance is always a challenge. Learning lifehacks
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Sponsored Solutions Track 3