💥 Tech Talks Weekly #46: 🆕 Conf42 Python 2025, JSNation, QCon London, DDD Europe, GOTO, PapersWeLove

Feb 13, 2025

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🏆 100 Most Watched Software Engineering Talks Of 2024

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That all being said, welcome to the 46th issue of Tech Talks Weekly! This time, we have lots of really great talks published since the last issue of TTW across the following conferences:

➡️ DDD Europe 2024
➡️ JSNation 2024
➡️ QCon London 2024
➡️ PapersWeLove NYC
➡️ performance.now() 2024
➡️ Lambda Days 2024 & Code BEAM 2024
➡️ GOTO 2024
➡️ CppCon 2024
➡️ 🆕 Conf42 Python 2025 & Conf42 DevSecOps 2024 (there’s plenty of good content in this one, so it’s worth scrolling to the bottom!)

Sounds good? Let’s jump right in!

🏆 Featured talks of the week

Here are the must-watch talks uploaded since the last TTW issue.

"What we learned about event sourcing and DDD while building a bank - Thomas Bøgh Fangel - DDD Europe" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 10 Feb 2025 ⸱ 00h 59m 45s
"Sidecar-Less or Sidecars for Your Applications in Istio Service Mesh?" ⸱ +400 views ⸱ 03 Feb 2025 ⸱ 00h 49m 51s
"Apache Kafka Meets Apache Iceberg: Real-Time Data Streaming • Kasun Indrasiri • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +900 views ⸱ 12 Feb 2025 ⸱ 00h 35m 57s
"The One Billion Row Challenge in Elixir: From 12 Minutes to 25 Seconds - Raj Rajhans | Code BEAM" ⸱ +500 views ⸱ 13 Feb 2025 ⸱ 00h 37m 07s
"C++ 20 Innovations: High-Performance Cross-Platform Architecture in C++ - Noah Stein - CppCon 2024" ⸱ +4k views ⸱ 04 Feb 2025 ⸱ 00h 54m 32s
"The Hidden Potential of Python's Dunder Methods | Eti Ijeoma | Conf42 Python 2025" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 06 Feb 2025 ⸱ 00h 37m 31s

📆 New talks

Here’s the complete list of all the talks uploaded since the last Tech Talks Weekly issue, grouped by conference, and ordered by the number of views for your convenience.