We Are Developers 2018

Austria Center Vienna,

May 16 - 18

About the conference

"Our mission is to connect developers globally. WeAreDevelopers was founded in order to enable developers across the world to share their knowledge and experience with one another."

• Created in 2015
• Covers various developer-related topics
• More than 8000 attendees in 2018
• Organizers call it Woodstock for Developers

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Austria Center Vienna, main stage

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It all started with Steve Wozniak.

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• He still describes himself as an engineer and like to tinker with gadgets
• Thinks that Bitcoin is just another bubble
• Does not like Facebook, but likes Apple
• Thinks Elon Musk has a long way to go in order to improve “Tesla”
• Knows Kim and Kanye

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StackOverflow organized a workshop about attracting talent

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• It all comes down to identity
• There’s a lot of things you can do inside and outside the company
• They were giving away some cool stickers

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Serverless vs. Kubernetes�(Niklas Heidloff)

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• Very popular talk – not enough room for everyone
• Minor complaint: there was no Blagoje

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Hunger games & technical issues

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• Not enough room to accommodate everyone on some talks
• Developers bringing the internet to its knees
• Developers are hungry

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DOOM

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• John Romero talked about the early days of idSoftware and how they made Doom
• Floppy disk is the ultimate code versioning sistem
• Hype levels are extreme on #tiap-dev-internal

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Sacrificing the Golden Calf of Coding (Chris Hielmann)

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• The future of coding is changing really fast
• Developers are relying too much on tools thay do not understand properly
• Why so serious?
• Learning to code vs. Learning to solve problems

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Habits of Efficient Developers �(Dan Lebrero)

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• Focus
• Master your tools
• Automate everything you can
• Put some effort in testing and code review

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NGINX Unit�(Nick Shadrin)

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• Application server that runs multiple applications written in different programing languages
• Supports different versions of the same language
• In-memory configuration that can be changed using the provided REST API

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Trends and Challenges in EU’s Tech Landscape�(Panel discussion)

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• GDPR and how it affects various businesses
• Workforce mobility
• Remote work
• Perception of Silicon Valley by the EU

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Startup alley: GitStorage

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• Based on a single board computer (SBC) which is based on Raspberry Pi
• The operating system, the software and the repositories are stored on a SD card
• Uses Linux, git, Duktape, Angular

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I won the PLURALSIGHT lottery… and got some cool SOCKS!!!

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• Pluralsight organized a lottery with some cool prizes
• Unfortunately, no licenses – only socks

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Joel on Software�(Joel Spolsky)

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• Many cool stories related to SO
• John Skeet!
• Pretty disappointing conclusion

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�PITANJA?

April Hansson

+1 23 987 6554

april@www.proseare.com