Tech Talks Weekly #16 ☀️☀️☀️

2024-05-30: Featuring J On The Beach 2024, QCon London 2024, NDC Sydney 2024, Conf42 ML 2024 and many more!

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Welcome to the 16. issue of Tech Talks Weekly! This time around, we have plenty of new uploads from 9 conferences including J On The Beach 2024, QCon London 2024, NDC Sydney 2024, Conf42 ML 2024, and many more!

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🏆 Featured talks of the week

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

1. "The Most Dangerous Phrase • Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2023" ⸱ +17k views ⸱ 24 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 50m 20s

   In this session, Daniel argues from first principles why ideas like SOLID and Scrum made sense in their day, over a quarter century ago, and why they have been superseded and should now be considered harmful.

2. "Looks GREAT To Me: Getting Past Bare Minimum Code Reviews - Adrienne Tacke - JOTB24" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 25 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 58s

3. "How I Met Your Data - Troy Hunt - NDC Sydney 2024" ⸱ +400 views ⸱ 30 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 59m 43s

4. "GenAI Pipeline for Content Generation with Apache Airflow | Tamara Janina Fingerlin | Conf42 ML 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 25 May 2024 ⸱ 01h 10m 54s

📆 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. QCon London 2024 and QCon San Francisco 2023

1. "Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Patterns and Best Practices" ⸱ May 30, 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 15s

2. "Mission, Culture, and Values: Using Them to Guide Your Company Through Good and Challenging Times" ⸱ May 29, 2024 ⸱ 00h 30m 44s

3. "Understanding Architectures for Multi-Region Data Residency" ⸱ May 24, 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 44s

2. J On The Beach 2024

1. "Mastering database magic: unveiling the Travel Search Engine with PostgreSQL- Kheng Boon Pek -JOTB" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 23 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 09s

2. "Looks GREAT To Me: Getting Past Bare Minimum Code Reviews - Adrienne Tacke - JOTB24" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 25 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 33m 58s

3. "How iroh moves bytes over the internet - Rüdriger Klaehn - JOTB24" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 28 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 30m 39s

4. "Open World Execution: Seamless Local-First & Distributed Computation - Brooklyn Zelenka - JOTB24" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 24 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 24s

5. "Addressing Development Pains Holistically - Raphaël Beamonte - JOTB24" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 23 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 23m 56s

6. "The first thing we do, let's kill all the databases - Sean Scott - JOTB24" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 26 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 24m 59s

7. "The Future Roadmap for the Composable Data Stack - Wes McKinney - JOTB24" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 27 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 40m 40s

8. "Decisions in Data: Insights from Practitioner to Executive - Sol Rashidi - J On The Beach 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 24 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 32m 53s

9. "Scaling Distributed Transactions ¡La lucha Continúa! - Jim Webber - JOTB24" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 26 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 29m 10s

10. "Raft made live in Redpanda - Michał Maślanka - JOTB24" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 16s

3. LeadDev

1. "How to get promoted beyond staff engineer" ⸱ +800 views ⸱ 28 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 48m 20s

2. "Choosing metrics your teams won’t hate" ⸱ +400 views ⸱ 24 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 48m 39s

3. "How does context switching impact team productivity?" ⸱ +200 views ⸱ 29 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 46m 24s

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4. GOTO 2024 and GOTO 2023

1. "The Most Dangerous Phrase • Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2023" ⸱ +17k views ⸱ 24 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 50m 20s

2. "Cloud Career Journeys • Prasad Rao & David Linthicum • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +6k views ⸱ 23 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 30m 01s

3. "GitHub Advanced Security: Helping Developers Secure the World’s Software • Karl Krukow • GOTO 2023" ⸱ +5k views ⸱ 27 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 55m 12s

4. "Reading Code • Marit van Dijk • GOTO 2023" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 29 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 36m 12s

5. "Diving Into the VOID • Casey Rosenthal • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +600 views ⸱ 28 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 28m 32s

6. "Climbing the Ladder of Abstraction Towards the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum • Jonas Bonér • GOTO 2023" ⸱ +300 views ⸱ 30 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 57s

5. NDC Sydney 2024

1. "Safety first! Low-level C# without the unsafe keyword - Wesley Cabus - NDC Sydney 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 25 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 31s

2. "Code to cloud with .NET Aspire - David Fowler & Damian Edwards" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 29 May 2024 ⸱ 01h 07m 57s

3. "ChatGPT and OpenAI API solutions: 👑 My Favourite Implementations - Adam Cogan - NDC Sydney 2024" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 23 May 2024 ⸱ 01h 11m 54s

4. "How I Met Your Data - Troy Hunt - NDC Sydney 2024" ⸱ +400 views ⸱ 30 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 59m 43s

6. AI in Production Conference 2024

1. "Evaluating Quality and Improving LLM Products at Scale // Austin Bell // AI in Production Conference" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 23 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 15m 11s

2. "Navigating the Emerging LLMOps Stack // Hien Luu // AI in Production Conference Lightning Talk" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 23 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 12m 51s

7. API Conference Berlin 2023

1. "Let's build a Supergraph using ChatGPT with Joe Devine" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 28 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 35m 42s

8. Code BEAM Europe 2023 and RabbitMQ Summit 2023

1. "Against the Grain by Saša Jurić | Code BEAM Europe 2023" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 29 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 37m 04s

2. "Serving millions of clients with Native MQTT and MQTT 5.0 by David Ansari | RabbitMQ Summit 2023" ⸱ +500 views ⸱ 23 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 24s

3. "Keynote panel discussion: The next 30 years | Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2024" ⸱ +300 views ⸱ 28 May 2024 ⸱ 01h 03m 11s

4. "etylizer: Set-theoretic Types for Erlang by Annette Bieniusa, Albert Schimpf | Code BEAM Europe 2023" ⸱ +300 views ⸱ 29 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 23m 05s

5. "Scaling CLIP based Natural Language Media Search with Bumblebee and Broadway by Raj Rajhans" ⸱ +200 views ⸱ 29 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 26m 29s

6. "Building and growing the community by Sigu Magwa and Njoki Kiarie | Code BEAM Europe 2023" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 29 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 18m 27s

9. Conf42 ML 2024

1. "Premiere - Conf42 Machine Learning 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 30 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 20m 20s

2. "Global Intelligence Pipeline: Crafting Inference at the Edge | Michele Taroni | Conf42 ML 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 30 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 19m 49s

3. "The Art of Data Story Telling, Powered by Oracle Analytics | Ambili T | Conf42 ML 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 28 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 47m 58s

4. "Design Think before you create your next AI product | Arushi Srivastava | Conf42 ML 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 25 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 12s

5. "GenAI Pipeline for Content Generation with Apache Airflow | Tamara Janina Fingerlin | Conf42 ML 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 25 May 2024 ⸱ 01h 10m 54s

6. "From Code to Insight: Using NLP & Pattern Analysis in Git History | Pavel Perfilov | Conf42 ML 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 26 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 18m 53s

7. "The Rise of AI Agents | Jonathan Harel | Conf42 ML 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 25 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 32m 55s

8. "Efficiency through Stateless Microservices: Request Handling | Mike Malyi | Conf42 ML 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 25 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 21m 14s

9. "Affordable ML Platform | Zhiya Zang | Conf42 ML 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 25 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 25m 16s

10. "Dynamic UIs: Harnessing AI for Emotion-Aware Experiences | Yashwanth Kotha | Conf42 ML 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 25 May 2024 ⸱ 00h 12m 16s

Enjoy the weekend ☀️ and see you next week!