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We Are Developers 2018

Austria Center Vienna,

May 16 - 18

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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.

  • 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

  • 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)

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

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Hunger games & technical issues

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

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DOOM

  • 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)

  • 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)

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

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NGINX Unit�(Nick Shadrin)

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 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!!!

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

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Joel on Software�(Joel Spolsky)

  • 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