The only thing stopping software from being inclusive is the developers. Being inclusive is not a "bonus if we have enough time", but needs to be a core focus of a project from the earliest stage to the final product. 
 
A large number of developers recognize this is an important issue, but don’t think they have the resources to do anything about it. If more developers did these things, they could increase their potential audience tremendously. This isn't about altruism, it's just good business practice. 
 
Tobiah Zarlez from Microsoft will share what he has learned through his work with developers, as well as his own development experience. Attendees will take away 9 simple ideas that developers should know about when creating their software to greatly increase the inclusivity their final products. They will learn that inclusivity can be cheap and easy to integrate as long as these concepts are kept in mind from the beginning.

The only thing stopping software from being inclusive is the developers. If they did these cost-effective things, they could increase their potential audience tremendously. This isn't about altruism, it's just good business practice.

9 things every developer can do to be more inclusive

This session will provide a primer on machine learning, a high-level non-intimidating overview. We’re going to demystify machine learning and its use. We’ll look at how learning occurs and how deep learning is different. We will review 6-8 common algorithms such that you get a good intuition about each one. (e.g., Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines, Decision Trees, K-Nearest Neighbor, K-Means, Neural Networks, Deep Learning). There will be very little math and no coding. The goal is for everyone to become conversant with machine learning.

This session will provide a high-level non-intimidating overview of machine learning. We’ll demystify 6-8 common algorithms. There will be very little math and no coding. The goal is for everyone to become conversant with machine learning.

A Machine Learning Primer

Have you ever tried learning about Neural Networks but are allergic to dense equations? This is the talk for you! Learn the concepts behind neural networks with nothing more complicated than addition and multiplication.
 
This talk is intended for beginners who are interested in machine learning - if you've ever opened up a TensorFlow tutorial, this talk is for you! You'll learn a brief history behind neural networks as well as common applications today. Then we'll cover neural networks from the ground up, covering the architecture and how all the components fit together. Finally, we'll assemble those components into a basic neural network that solves the Warrior programming game.

Have you ever tried learning about Neural Networks but are allergic to dense equations?  This is the talk for you!  Learn the concepts behind neural networks with nothing more complicated than addition and multiplication.

A Math-Free Introduction to Neural Networks

This session is about your career perspective as an engineer, especially when the path may take an “unexpected” turn from technical lead to first-time engineering manager. We will explore the differences between managing and leading, review different management styles, and discuss their impact on both the manager and the team member. 

Finally, we will find out why you do not want to treat everyone equally. I will share my personal experiences going from being one of the team to actually managing it: the pitfalls of suddenly being responsible for the team, typical problems surfacing, and how to avoid common mistakes. 

As part of the session, I would also like to share thoughts and considerations about which career path could be the right one for whom, and what the advantages and disadvantages are going one way or the other. This is not a “You get it all from the expert”- session, but a session to share experiences and discuss how this fits to your career path. 

This session is about your career perspective as an engineer, especially when the path may take an “unexpected” turn from technical lead to first-time engineering manager.



Accidentally Manager – A Survival Guide for First-Time Engineering Managers

Ever met a resistant team? Or managers who say “Agile doesn’t work.” Or executives who think that agile is some kind of get-to-market-quick magic? Well, consider they have no actual idea what agile is. Why would they if no-one has ever explained it to them properly? Worse, their misunderstanding serves as their context during training and coaching and never getting any benefit, preventing successful agile transformations. Andrew Webster calls it “Agile PTSD.” 

In this session, you’ll get a deeper insight into the wisdom of agile practices, learning how to shift people’s context for agile development so they see it as a huge exciting opportunity instead of another thing they’ve got to handle when they’re already way too busy.

We’ll cover a set of “dimensions” that explain:
 Takeaways

 •&#160;&#160;&#160; Why agile practices are inevitable 

 •&#160;&#160;&#160; Why up to 70% of people hate their work and how agile practices can transform that

 •&#160;&#160;&#160; How a company benefits financially from using agile approaches

 •&#160;&#160;&#160; How to make sense of work and thereby improve the product, the process, and workers’ experience 

 •&#160;&#160;&#160; And more!

 We know agile development is &quot;the difference maker.&quot; Now let’s make that difference!

Lost the appetite for Agile approaches?  Never had the appetite?  Don't actually know what "Agile" is all about?  Perfect!  Here's a quick appetizer to get you to that point of going "Oh, yum!  More please!"

Agile Appetizer

It has always been said that Android is not a complete platform. The app developer must include several popular libraries as a base just to start to build a simple app. Now Google has expressed the same sediment. The four App components of Android (Activities, Services, Broadcast receivers and Content providers) are not the building blocks of an Android app but a contract between the OS and Application. App developers need to rebuild the basic building blocks whenever starting a new App. This causes many problems for developers and leads to ambiguity about how to best build a robust App. 
 
Google is looking to remedy this problem by releasing the Android Architectural Components (Room, Lifecycle-aware components, ViewModels and LiveData). While they individually address developer pain points (Persist Data, Manage Lifecycles, Modular & remove errors) they also work together to implement a sane app architecture. In this talk we will detail each components functions and benefits
 
Once we have a clear understanding of the Architectural Components we will explain how they work together to form a robust reference architecture. Common architectural principles: The most important thing you should focus on is the separation of concerns in your app.
 
The second important principle is that you should drive your UI from a model, preferably a persistent model.
 
We end the talk by reviewing how these new components replace and interact with current popular Android libraries.

This talk will cover Android Architectural Components (Room, Lifecycle-aware components, ViewModels and LiveData).  After building a clear understanding of the components we will explain how they work together to form a robust reference architecture.

Android Architecture & Material components with Kotlin.

Angular is *the* framework for creating modern client-side Web applications. In this session, we cover what you need to get started using the latest version of Angular.
We cover the key building blocks, such as modules, components, and templates and learn how to use the Angular CLI for generating Angular code.


Angular is *the* framework for creating modern client-side Web applications. In this session, we cover what you need to get started using the latest version of Angular, including the Angular CLI code generation tool.

Angular 101

A demo how to build components in Angular 2. We will use ng CLI to create a new Angular project and Visual Studio Code to show the implementation details. Some knowledge of Javascript and HTML is helpful. Angular 2 knowledge is not needed.

A demo how to build components in Angular 2. We will use ng CLI to create a new Angular project and Visual Studio Code to show the implementation details.

Angular 2 -- Components

We've made it. Science fiction is now science fact. Hardware, software, and data science have advanced to where we can finally look at artificial intelligence as a commodity, not the work of specialists in the field. Azure unlocks for the path for advanced users, while normalized wrappers like Cognitive Services have given developers & armchair scientists access to easy-to-use, easy-to-deploy, affordable solutions for everyday apps. In this session, let's look at the approach of this new age and how to make the most with the skills you already have. 

We've made it. Science fiction is now science fact. In this session, let's look at the approach of this new age and how to make the most with the skills you already have. 

Artificial Intelligence for everyone, even you

In depth tips on leveraging the AWS Python CLI.  We'll cover using the tool to obtain details about your environment, and setting up new services.  We also delve into topics and examples of how to use the AWS cli as a part of your Configuration Management, and CI/CD toolchain.

We will cover using the AWS Cli in day to day DevOps work and application deployments.

Automating AWS infrastructure with the AWS Cli

Serverless is a node.js based framework that makes creating, deploying, and managing serverless functions a breeze. We will use AWS Lambda as our FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) provider, although Serverless supports IBM OpenWhisk and Microsoft Azure as well.
 
In this session, we will talk about Serverless Applications, and Create and deploy a java-maven based AWS Lambda API. We will also explore the command line interface to manage lambda, which is provided out of the box by serverless framework.

In this session, we will talk about Serverless Applications, and Create and deploy a java-maven based AWS Lambda API. We will also explore the command line interface to manage lambda, which is provided out of the box by serverless framework.

AWS Lambda with Serverless Framework and Java

Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without provisioning or managing any infrastructure. You can use Functions to run a script or a piece of code using a timer, a trigger, or a web hook. They have some great integration features for Azure Storage, Service Bus, Event Hubs, etc. I'll talk about what Functions are, and what you might use them for. I'll show several examples, including one written in C# that uses Azure Storage integration.

Azure Functions is a serverless compute service. In this session, I'll discuss them, and show how to create them. I'll also talk about Event Grid and show how to use it with Functions.

Azure Functions

It’s pretty hard to find a language which can crunch numbers as fast as C++. But much of its reputation for being an unsafe language comes from its numeric types. Is it possible to make numbers easier to use without slowing down your program? This talk looks at how to use custom arithmetic types to avoid errors such as overflow and truncation without paying more than you need to. I’ll cover many of the gotchas associated with integers and how to avoid them through good practices and a numerics library that I’m developing called CNL.

This talk introduces a number library, CNL, which improves on the integers that C++ provides. It will also be valuable to anyone who wants a better grasp on how to use integers safely and effectively.

Better Numeric Types in C++

Learning history of MONEY, let us discuss new money, digital money.
 
We will discuss blockchain that powers new currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum etc. We will go over how new money is created and distributed. We will also cover a practical example of send/receive of digital money using digital wallet. 
 
In this session, you will learn how you can build your block chain network and develop new apps. Emerging usage of block chain will be discussed. We will go over demos of several technologies in this session. These demos will help you understand how technology is evolving. You will learn how cryptology and distributed trust form core of technology. You will gather new ideas to develop your own app as well. 
 
In the end, we will cover future of new money. We will discuss what we can do stay prepared. This will be an useful session for all who want to know cryprocurrency, block chain technology and new usage that is going to change financial markets of future.

Blockchain has enabled birth of widely used cryptocurrency. Come to the session to learn all about money and how new money is changing financial markets. You will see  live demos, code and learn how to write new apps.

Bitcoin Blockchain - New Money

Returning for another year, this talk may include some new surprises. Bitcoin is changing in big ways! What is Bitcoin? How does it work? Who controls it? What is mining? Is it possible to counterfeit bitcoin? This lively, interactive session will provide you with a base understanding of the in's and out's of this and similar digital currencies. After this session you will have enough basics to get some bitcoin and, if you desire, send it to anyone on Earth in seconds.

What is Bitcoin? Mining? How do I get and send bitcoin? This lively session provides an intro to the digital currency and the technologies that make it work. Afterwards, you will be able to own bitcoin and send some to anyone on Earth in seconds.

Bitcoin Digital Cash: Send cash to anyone on Earth with your phone or PC

Blockchain mobile apps are becoming another major innovation trend to solve FinTech problems we're facing today.  Tealeaf Mobile SDK can help developers and business people identify struggles from end users, and create a more compelling story to make it easier for adoption.

Blockchain mobile apps are becoming another major innovation trend to solve FinTech problems we're facing today.  

Blockchain App UX Capture & Replay

This session is for developers who are new to blockchain technology and want to get started with understanding and piloting a blockchain network. We  will walk through the Hyperledger Fabric architecture and show  how to set up an IBM Blockchain network based on the open source Hyperledger Fabric, deploy chaincode (smart contracts), and write client apps to streamline your business processes and digital interactions. We will also show you how to rapidly build business networks using Hyperledger composer and composer playground.  

Learn about Blockchain architecture, Hyperledger Fabric and composer and quickly develop business applications.

Blockchain architecture fundamentals and developing business applications

PART 2 LAB
This session is for developers who are new to blockchain technology and want to get started with understanding and piloting a blockchain network. We  will walk through the Hyperledger Fabric architecture and show  how to set up an IBM Blockchain network based on the open source Hyperledger Fabric, deploy chaincode (smart contracts), and write client apps to streamline your business processes and digital interactions. We will also show you how to rapidly build business networks using Hyperledger composer and composer playground.  

Blockchain architecture fundamentals and developing business applicationsLB

Build a BlockChain App from scratch. Yes, future of financial payments is moving in the direction of BlockChain.
 
I will explain the fundamentals of BlockChain in this session and build a complete decentralized BlockChain App.

Build a BlockChain App from scratch. Learn the fundamentals of BlockChain technology.

BlockChain: Learn to implement Blockchain

While many of the bots that you have seen can help you buy tickets to a movie, or book flights, or even add a mustache to a picture, bots can also be integrated into the enterprise. From bots that integrate with Jenkins to help you manage your build process, to handling first level support in a call center, conversation bots can be deployed in an enterprise in a very effective way. Let you users interact with systems in the communication channels they prefer (Facebook, Slack, Kik, Skype, email, sms) in one integrated solution. In this session we will show you how to utilize the BotFramework to build bots for your enterprise

 Let you users interact with systems in the communication channels they prefer (Facebook, Slack, Kik, Skype, email, sms) in one integrated solution. In this session we will show you how to utilize the BotFramework to build bots for your enterprise

Bots are the new enterprise apps.

Are you new to JavaScript and confused about the module, module loader, and module bundler? Or you have been writing JavaScript code for a while, but can’t get a grip of the jargons about module? You heard about the jargons like CommonJS, AMD, Browserify, SystemJS, Webpack, JSPM, etc., but don’t understand why we need them?
 
I will try to explain what are they, and what problem they try to solve, and how they solve the problem.

Brief introduction to JavaScript modules and JavaScript tools for modules.


Brief history of JavaScript Modules

AI is expanding into our daily lives. Devices and agents like Siri, Cortana, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home are gaining huge traction in homes and phones around the globe. What better way to embrace our AI overlords than to build your own Alexa skill?
 
Learn how to use open-source tools and .NET Core to build and deploy a custom Alexa skill. The project will utilize AWS Lambda for friction-free deployment and scaling. A live demo will be included!

Learn how to build an Amazon Alexa (Echo) skill using .NET Core, and deploy it to AWS Lambda!

Build an Alexa skill with .NET Core and AWS Lambda

Chrome extensions are like apps for your desktop - they can alert you to changes and incoming events from around the web, improve your browsing experience, or add new functionality to old web sites. 

Extensions are surprisingly easy to build. With just a little bit of JavaScript, and some knowledge of the DOM, you too can build a useful Chrome extension, and even publish it in the web store. 

Adding React and Webpack to the mix allow us to create reusable components, and repeatable building environment, making it ever easier to add new functionality to our browser. 

In this session we'll cover the basics of a Chrome extension, and create one together, using ES6 flavored JavaScript for the logic, React for the view, and Webpack 2 for the build/package environment. 

Some basic familiarity with ES6, React, and Webpack 2 is recommended, but not mandatory.

Chrome extensions are like apps for your desktop. They are extremely useful, yet very easy to build. In this session we'll create a Chrome extension together, using JavaScript ES6, React, and Webpack.

Build Chrome Extensions using React/Webpack

What if you could leverage a new modality? What if your user’s interaction could be precise, novel and specifically tuned for your app’s use cases. Microsoft Dial is an innovative extension to interact with apps, and the API is far more straight-forward than you might expect.

Microsoft Dial is an innovative extension to interact with apps, and the API is far more straight-forward than you might expect.

Building Solutions with the Microsoft Dial

There will be NO NAPPING during this session. In this workshop everyone will stand up, talk, move around, and learn professional networking engagement techniques. David Spark, author of "Three Feet from Seven Figures: One-on-One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows" challenges the most introverted developers to come to this session and learn how to make in-person cold connections, find *the* person in the room you need to talk to, and qualify a person for a potential business relationship.

In this workshop everyone will learn professional networking engagement techniques. Stand up, make in-person cold connections, find *the* person in the room you need to talk to, and qualify a person for a potential business relationship. 

Business Networking Pickup Lines for Developers

This talk will cover why engineers looking for performance choose C++. Jon will present an historical perspective of C++ focusing on what's going on in the C++ community right now and where the language and its user base is heading. With a renewed interest in performance for both data centers and mobile devices, and the success of open source software libraries, C++ is back and it is hot. This talk will explain why C++ is most software engineers' go-to language for performance. You will receive a rough historical sketch that puts C++ in perspective and covers its popularity ups and downs.
 
This talk is based, in part, on the book "C++ Today: The Beast is Back" published by O'Reilly.

After being the exciting new language of the 80s and 90s C++ lost its luster in the 2000, but has come roaring back. This talk explains why.

C++ Today: The Beast Is Back

This is the story of the representation of text as numbers. We will range from the earliest codes, Hollerith and Morse, to what will likely be the last character code, Unicode. The mysterious control codes of ASCII will be explained. Subtle decisions made in the last century had large unintended consequences. The irritating eternal dilemma "Tabs or Spaces?" will finally be resolved logically for the first time.

How JavaScript Works

Character Sets

All Clean Code presentations provide great value by themselves, but taken together are designed to offer a holistic approach to successful software creation. This first session creates the foundation for the 2nd Clean Code presentation on The Art of Decoupling, as it explains expected base knowledge. Why writing Clean Code makes us more efficient Over the lifetime of a product, maintaining the product is actually one - if not the most - expensive area(s) of the overall product costs. 

Writing clean code can significantly lower these costs. However, writing clean code also makes you more efficient during the initial development time and results in more stable code. You will be presented design patterns and best practices which will make you write better and more easily maintainable code, seeing the code in a holistic way. 

You will learn how to apply them by using an existing implementation as the starting point of the presentation. Finally, patterns & practices benefits are explained. 

This presentation is based on C# and Visual Studio 2017. However, the demonstrated patterns and practice can be applied to every other programming language too. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/theojungeblut/clean-code-i-best-practices

Writing clean code can significantly lower these costs. However, writing clean code also makes you more efficient during the initial development time and results in more stable code, seeing the code in a holistic way.

Clean Code - Best Practices

Why writing Clean Code makes us more efficient? Over the lifetime of a product, maintaining the product is actually one - if not the most - expensive area(s) of the overall product costs.  
 
We will dive into why decoupling is so crucial and what design patterns, best practices, and technologies are out there to do it right and want can go wrong.
 
We start by reviewing the basics of Inversion of Control (IOC) and Dependency Injection (DI) and different ways of achieving decoupling on class-level, using and exploring both: Best Practices, Design and Anti Patterns. Then we will move into Microservices, how these push decoupling to the next level and how to combine the different patterns for an extensible, supportable and maintainable code base.
 
This presentation requires knowledge and understanding of basics like DRY, SoC, SRP, SOLID etc. which are building the base for decoupled architecture. However, we will start at the basics of DI and will work towards intermediate scenarios for DI and Microservices depending on the participating group.  
 
This presentation is based on C# and Visual Studio 2017. However, the demonstrated patterns and practice can be applied to every other programming language too. 

We will dive into why decoupling is so crucial and what design patterns. We start by reviewing the basics of Inversion of Control (IOC) and Dependency Injection (DI) and will move into Micro Services reviewing different ways of achieving decoupling.

Clean Code – The Art of Decoupling

This session will cover, from personal experience after just a year of professional programming, the 10 most common problems that surface after deploying code to production environments. It will encompass concepts such as performance, style, security, null, patterns in service oriented architectures and more! I'll show actual code and walk through how to avoid the pitfalls by modifying said code. Ultimately, this is a checklist-type talk to improve code quality and delivery.

The software engineer’s checklist: 10 checks to deploy more smoothly.

Common Post Deployment Snafus

We will first review what CD (continuous deployment/delivery) is and will briefly cover how it works. If you’re not familiar with CI/CD tools, I will demo how CD tools handle continuous deployment to Azure and how you can use them to stand up Docker infrastructure (or even Kubernetes) and pass Docker commands for your dev environments. This session will teach attendees how to push apps to Docker containers or Kubernetes Pods on Azure from a CI/CD pipeline. The code used to support Azure is highly scalable and can be applied to a host of CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Travis CI, Codeship, Codefresh, etc. If you’ve ever been curious about how to get started with continuous integration / continuous deployment and Docker containers, or even Microsoft Azure, this is the talk to attend! After this session, you will firmly understand how you can use CI/CD with Microsoft Azure and Docker to build images and run your applications in running containers. You will also learn how to create a non-interactive, command line based, login session to Microsoft Azure, a method you can use to scale with any developer environment.

We will review an open source CD/CI tool, Jenkins, and show how to use it in conjunction with Microsoft’s Cloud platform, Microsoft Azure, & Docker Swarm. 

Complete CI/CD Pipeline to Microsoft Azure with Docker using Jenkins

With the widespread adoption of Docker, containers have taken the DevOps world by storm. Cloud-native is the new programming paradigm. Since developers are not only the creators of these systems, but also the administrators and users - it is imperative for them to understand the different models of container networking both within a host and across hosts along with some of the newer Linux kernel constructs that aid container networking

This talk is aimed at introducing out-of-the-box docker networking and diving deeper into understanding the nuts &amp; bolts of the system - from network namespaces to linux system calls that make everything work. We will also look at various open source networking projects such as Calico, Flannel and Weave for inter-node communication with Kubernetes as the container orchestration tool.

Some specifics that will be covered in the talk:
 + Direct host container networking (L2/L3 connectivity for Containers with the external network)

 + MACVLAN and IPVLAN

 + K8S pod network model &amp; CNI

 + Running network backend outside of K8S versus running them as K8S objects (Daemon Sets)

 + Recent developments in Docker Networking

 + Debugging network issues using probes (Eg: Sysdig)

 + Gotchas in container networking

 + Future trends in container networking

This talk is aimed at introducing out-of-the-box docker networking and diving deeper into understanding the nuts & bolts of the system - from network namespaces to linux system calls that make everything work. We will also look at various open source networking projects such as Calico, Flannel and Weave for inter-node communication with Kubernetes as the container orchestration tool.

Some specifics that will be covered in the talk:
+ Direct host container networking (L2/L3 connectivity for Containers with the external network)
+ MACVLAN and IPVLAN
+ K8S pod network model & CNI
+ Running network backend outside of K8S versus running them as K8S objects (Daemon Sets)
+ Recent developments in Docker Networking
+ Debugging network issues using probes (Eg: Sysdig)
+ Gotchas in container networking
+ Future trends in container networking

With the gaining popularity of DevOps and the container eco-system, this talk will focus on the "networking" fundamentals of both docker containers & Kubernetes. Learn how basic networking works and how to debug the most common issues.


Container and Kubernetes networking 101

Containers are the new abstraction for the datacenter, both on-site and off. They seem like VMs, but they aren't. Learn a variety of ways to run containers in your organization, for both Linux and Windows and where containers fit in the world of private and public cloud offerings.
 
In this session, you will learn a variety of ways to run and use containers and microservices in your organization, for both Linux and Windows applications. Container technology allows you to achieve greater density on your hosts, reduce conflicts between dev/test/prod environments and increase deployment speed. 
 
You can easily get started using Docker containers on your workstation, bring those containers to your datacenter or cloud provider (either on IaaS or a container service) and then deploy them at scale using popular orchestration tools, like Docker or Kubernetes.

Just thinking about Containers? Figuring out where the fit in the cloud ecosystem? Completely unsure of how you should use them? Learn the different ways you can use containers today and find out how to quickly get started.

Containers Your Way

Programming interviews are a different breed from other interviews and, as such, require specialized skills and techniques. This talk will teach you how to prepare for coding interviews, what top companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft really look for, and how to tackle the toughest programming and algorithm problems. This is not a fluffy be-your-best talk; it is deeply technical and will discuss specific algorithm and data structure topics.

Programmer & best-selling author of Cracking the Coding Interview presents a technical talk on how coding interviews work and how to do well on them. This will be a deeply technical talk covering data structures and algorithms.

Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology

Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions

The Big Book of Coding Interviews in C and C++, 3rd Edition: answers to the best programming interview questions on data structures and algorithms

Cracking the Coding Interview

Kotlin is a language from the tool gurus at JetBrains. In 2016, after about six years of development, Kotlin reached version 1.0. In 2017 it won the hearts of developers and became an officially supported language for Android. 
 
Kotlin, like Java, is for more than creating Android applications. It can replace or enhance Java most places it is used today including on AWS. AWS Lambda functions sometimes called Serverless Computing, is a service which lets us developers build web services without worrying about configuring servers. 
 
In this session, we will create a lambda service on AWS using Kotlin. Along the way, we will learn what a makes Kotlin an excellent replacement for Java and how simple it is to construct an AWS Lambda function.

In this session, we will create a lambda service on AWS using  Kotlin. Along the way, we will learn what a makes Kotlin an excellent replacement for Java and how simple it is to construct an AWS Lambda function.

Creating an AWS Lambda Function with Kotlin

This session introduces a new platform-as-a-service offering: Oracle MySQL Cloud Service. MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database and the #1 open source database in the cloud. Oracle has engineered the proven MySQL Enterprise Edition together with Oracle Public Cloud to deliver a secure, cost-effective, and enterprise-grade MySQL database service. 
Join this deep dive session to learn 
How self-service provisioning creates preconfigured MySQL databases optimized for performance, and how cloud tooling automates databases instance lifecycle management
How advanced security features including MySQL Enterprise Firewall, authentication, and MySQL Enterprise Audit protect your databases against external attacks and misuse of information while helping you achieve regulatory compliance 
How MySQL Enterprise Monitor and the MySQL Query Analyzer continuously monitor your databases

You will learn how MySQL on oracle public Cloud and the features

Deep Dive: Oracle MySQL Cloud Service

Kotlin looks great but do you feel like suddenly loosing all your coding skills and wisdom? 
 
Let's visit the Gang of Four Design Patterns and implement them on Kotlin using IntelliJ's native Kotlin support.

Kotlin looks great but do you feel like suddenly loosing all your coding skills and wisdom? 
Let's visit the Gang of Four Design Patterns and implement them on Kotlin using IntelliJ's native Kotlin support.

Design Patterns with Kotlin

The Microsoft HoloLens, the first fully untethered, holographic Windows computer brings with it a new wave of holographic development. This talk will cover how the basics of the device, how it works, and how you can start developing holographic applications today using Unity.

Holographic devices like the HoloLens brings with it a new wave of holographic development. This talk will cover how the basics of the device, how it works, and how you can start developing holographic applications today using Unity.

Developing for Mixed Reality and the HoloLens

Availability of powerful technology stacks, with each having an advantage of its own. Polyglot Microservices gives great flexibility to the developers.
Learn to cook the DevOps recipe for the multi stack flavored Microservices. Giving developers perspective of building Microservice Architecture and way to seamlessly execute DevOps using containers for technology stacks such as Nodejs and SparkJava.

Learn how to effectively implement DevOps using containers, for building polyglot microservices with Nodejs and SparkJava.

DevOps for building Polyglot Microservices - Containerized

Bots have become a huge buzzword. How does people actually use bots? What real life scenarios are there? This session examines a handful of bot capabilities, design patterns, and best practices.  Knowledge based bots, handling user actions, how bots interact with websites/apps, and how hand off to human bot works will be explored in the session. Bot demo, and code sample will be illustrated throughout the session. 

This session explores bot capabilities, design patterns, knowledge based bots, handling user actions, how bots interact with websites/apps, and how hand off to human bot works. Bot demo, and code sample will be illustrated throughout the session. 

Dive into Bots

A fast-paced introduction for beginners (knowledge of Python is helpful) to Deep Learning (DL) concepts, such as Neural Networks, backprop, activation functions, and CNNs, RNNs (e.g., LSTMs). We'll look at some code samples in TensorFlow, Keras, Angular, and Android, and then wrap up with a book raffle of recent books.


A fast-paced intro to Deep Learning concepts, such as Neural Networks, backprop, activation functions, CNNs, and RNNs. We'll look at some code samples in TensorFlow, Keras, Angular, and Android, and then wrap up with a book raffle of recent books.

Diving into Deep Learning

What differentiates high performance teams?
 
Almost all of us have been on a high performance team. Just invite us, and we’ll sign up for another in a second! Typically, it was a team for which we worked harder - but from which we took away more exhilaration and joy - than any other team in our careers. What made it so? And what can we do to get it again?
 
Successful software development cultures are ones that are not just performant but that also both delight customers and are a joy for every team member to be part of. 
 
One of the characteristics that differentiates agile cultures is that (finally!) it’s not just managers who are responsible for crafting culture - but everyone. Every one of the various kinds of managers engaged with product and project teams have a role in crafting culture and supporting the emergence of high performance teams. But agile, done well, means every one of us engages in the crafting of it. 
 
Ultimately, stellar team experiences derive from us. We need to truly trust and respect and engage and share - behaviors that can feel at odds with the fierce independence from whence we’ve come.
 
How can people who are often introverted, highly-logical, independent thinkers not only form teams but make those teams self-organizing and high-performance? What’s the role of leaders in crafting culture that supports emergence of high performance teams? What can we all do to be part of a high performance team once again? How do we make our dream teams come true?

What differentiates high performance teams? What makes it a dream team? What’s our role–and what’s the role of our leaders–in crafting culture that supports emergence of dream teams? What can we each do–what must we do–to be part of a dream team?

Programming the 65816: Including the 6502, 65C02, and 65802

Managing the Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, and Insights for Managing Software People and Teams

Dream Teams: Making Your Dream (Team) Come True

This session will introduce you to the C++ object model: the rules by which C++ class objects are translated into memory layouts. We'll move from simple structures to polymorphic class types, then onward to multiple and virtual inheritance. We'll discuss the anatomy of a virtual method call, the difference between `static_cast` and `reinterpret_cast`, and what's contained in a vtable besides function pointers. The climax will be a complete implementation of C++'s built-in `dynamic_cast`, using our own hand-crafted artisanal run-time type information (RTTI). We'll see that the way `dynamic_cast` thinks about the class hierarchy is slightly different from the way we're used to drawing it!
 
Attendees will incidentally be exposed to several features of the modern C++ language, including type traits, the `final` qualifier, and the library type `std::variant`.
 
This session will mostly be talking about the Itanium C++ ABI, which is the standard on Linux and OS X systems. Mapping these concepts to the MSVC ABI will be left as an exercise for the reader.

Join Arthur O'Dwyer on a tour of the C++ object model, from simple structs to multiple and virtual inheritance; covering virtual method calls, vtables, RTTI, and the uses of the `final` qualifier.


dynamic_cast From Scratch

Imagine if you will, your Manager asks you to develop a new desktop application. You're so used to web development that you don't know how to get started. What should you do? Dig out your old VB 6 books or learn a new technology? Better yet, keep those web skills and use Electron. Electron is the cross-platform application shell GitHub originally built for the Atom editor. The focus of this talk will allow you to leave with the starting skills to set up your development environment, generate your starter project, and build some business logic. We will also start building a killer UX with the Photon control kit. Chris Woodruff will be your guide to leveraging your valuable skills for the desktop.

Imagine if you will, your Manager asks you to develop a new desktop application. You're so used to web development that you don't know how to get started. What should you do? Keep those web skills and use Electron.

Electron: Desktop Development For Web Developers

IBM® Watson Explorer is a cognitive search and content analysis platform that enables you to gain insights from your data. The solution allows you to search and analyze structured, unstructured, internal, external and public content to uncover trends and patterns. These insights help you improve decision-making, customer service and ROI. Leverage built-in machine learning, natural language processing and next-generation APIs to gain more value from your data. With analysis and insight, you gain a complete view of customers, in context, to help you improve your business.
You will have first hand experience with the tool on your own laptop in this session. Come, learn and expand your knowledge in the growing field of cognitive content analytics. 

Come, learn and expand your knowledge in the growing field of cognitive content analytics. As an attendee you will be downloading and installing the latest Watson explorer product on your laptop and create a content mining application.

Engage your customer using cognitive analytics in IBM Watson Explorer

LAB

IBM® Watson Explorer is a cognitive search and content analysis platform that enables you to gain insights from your data. The solution allows you to search and analyze structured, unstructured, internal, external and public content to uncover trends and patterns. These insights help you improve decision-making, customer service and ROI. Leverage built-in machine learning, natural language processing and next-generation APIs to gain more value from your data. With analysis and insight, you gain a complete view of customers, in context, to help you improve your business.
You will have first hand experience with the tool on your own laptop in this session. Come, learn and expand your knowledge in the growing field of cognitive content analytics. 

Engage your customer using cognitive analytics in IBM Watson Explorer LAB

In this talk, we will define how enterprise chains work differently from public chains and will demonstrate how you can get started with enterprise blockchain solutions in Microsoft Cloud. We will then dive into cryptlets, which are Microsoft Cloud-specific constructs providing common and approachable way for developers to integrate blockchain solutions into existing systems, secure execution and data, and enable privacy and scalability. Finally, we'll review the features of Microsoft Coco Framework and look at the roadmap of blockchain support on Azure.

Learn how to deploy enterprise blockchain solution on Azure, understand Microsoft Cloud-specific constructs to enable next-generation blockchain solutions (cryptlets), and glance into the future of blockchain on Azure.

Enterprise Blockchain with Microsoft Azure

Git (and GitHub) have become pillars in how we manage our code workflow, particularly when we work with large teams. Yet developers tend to be afraid of Git, and only handle but the most basic of operations. This presentation will reveal the magic of Git, and help you understand how and why operations are carried out.

After this session, you'll never be afraid of a merge conflict again.

Topics covered: 
<ul>
<li>Git under the hood</li>
<li>Git basics</li>
<li>Merging vs Rebasing</li>
<li>Conflict resolution</li>
<li>Triangular Workflow</li>
</ul>

Common error scenarios and how to solve them * Tips and Tricks

Go beyond `pull` and `push`. Git has become a crucial tool in our day to day workflow. Understand how it works, and learn how to wield it properly. After this session, you'll never be afraid of a merge conflict again.

Everything you wanted to know about Git, but were afraid to ask.

Most people have heard of Bitcoin, and also know that blockchain is one of the underlying concepts behind this cryptocurrency.  However, the ability to share information via a shared, trusted distributed network with embedded business logic also has many potential benefits for an enterprise deployment.  Join this session to hear about blockchain, enterprise use cases, and associated concepts such as smart contracts.  We will build a smart contract in Java or Go on the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain technology, and also discuss what we, as technologists, should be thinking about as we look to apply these concepts across various enterprise use cases.

This session will discuss blockchain, enterprise use cases, and associated concepts such as smart contracts.  A smart contract will also be written and deployed to the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain technology.

Extending Blockchain To Enterprise Applications

Components are the building blocks in Angular application development. Come take a ride through the Angular framework as we take advantage of TypeScript to build custom components and extend existing ones. Along the journey, we will discuss Angular modules & decorators, highlight some core features of TypeScript and demonstrate the benefits TypeScript with Angular. 

We will create and modify an Angular project to extend the functionality of components.

Extending Components in Angular

In this session discover a best practice architecture for mobile-based solutions that can read data from a cloud application (such as Oracle Sales Cloud) or an on-premises ERP application (such as Oracle E-Business Suite). Often, enterprises need to build bespoke mobile applications based on critical business needs, but building enterprise-grade mobile apps poses many challenges. Implementing data retrieval in mobile application client code is incredibly complex because it needs to be shaped in the required format within reasonable performance limits and with all aspects of security handled appropriately. These requirements are addressed by a mobile back-end implemented in Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, resulting in a superior user experience that provides increased user adoption.

The agenda..
3
Enterprise Mobile App - Use-case
The need for a Mobile Backend
MBaaS – Oracle Mobile Cloud Service
Understanding Mobile Clients
Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit
Code and Demo

Extending Enterprise Applications to Mobile Interfaces

Fantastic Transcoder is a serverless video encoder which utilizes massively parallel compute in AWS Lambda to achieve ludicrous conversion speeds. It exists as an orchestrated collection of Lambda tasks which uses DynamoDB, SQS, and S3 for data structure, job tracking, and object storage respectively, essentially turning Lambda into a render farm. Take a deep dive on how Fantastic Transcoder itself works, gotchas of massively parallel programming, failure cases, and using lambda efficiently at scale.

A deep dive on Massively parallel tasks in AWS Lambda utilizing SQS, DynamoDB, and s3. 

Fantastic Transcoder: Massively Parallel video conversion in AWS Lambda

Building the technology powering the best consumer email inbox in the world is no easy task. When you start on such a journey, it is important to consider how to deliver such an experience to the users. After all, any consumer feature we build can only make a difference after it is delivered to everyone via the tech pipeline.As we began building out the new version of Yahoo Mail, we wanted to ensure that our internal developer productivity would not be hindered by how our pipelines work. Keeping this in mind, we identified the following principles as most important while designing the delivery pipeline for the new Yahoo Mail experience:* Product updates are pushed at regular intervals * Releases are stable * Builds are not blocked by irrational test failures * Developers are notified of code pushes * Hotfixes * Rollbacks * Heartbeat pushes

Building the technology powering the best consumer email inbox in the world is no easy task. When you start on such a journey, it is important to consider how to deliver such an experience to the users.

Forward-Thinking Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipeline

Being a backend developer, frontend developer, or system administrator often isn’t enough in the modern technology space. Now it is often the expectation that the developer is responsible for all parts of the stack, making them what can be referred to as a Full Stack Developer.

We’re going to see how to leverage Node.js towards building a very modular web application that can be expanded beyond the web to things like mobile, desktop, and the Internet of Things (IoT). In particular, we’re going to be looking at NoSQL as our data layer, Node.js as our logic layer, and Angular as our client layer when building a web application.

A breakdown of the session can be seen below:

* Building a RESTful API with Node.js that has several CRUD endpoints

* Connecting the Node.js application to a NoSQL database for flexible data storage in JSON format and complex querying

* Creating and consuming API data from an Angular with TypeScript frontend application

As an attendee, you’ll walk away with knowledge that can be applied towards creating your own very powerful, yet lightweight, full stack web applications.

Learn how to build full stack applications using various JavaScript technologies such as Node.js and Angular.

Full Stack Development with JavaScript and NoSQL

Ninety percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.  STEM education needs to include the basic concepts of data. This class is for non-technical individuals and kids over the age of 10 to explore the basic concepts of data. What is Data ? Is Data just a fancy word for information ? What is a Database  ?  Why and when do yo need one? We will explore these topics by building a trivia game based on data.



Do you know how to make a database program?   STEM education needs to include the basic concepts of data. This fun class is for non-technical individuals and kids over the age of 10 to explore the concepts of data and how it is used in software.

Fun Introduction to Data in Software for Non-Techies

In this talk we discuss Deep Learning, the technique that powers many of the most powerful Artificial Intelligent products and applications. Such as self-driving cars, automatic image labeling in social networks, and robotic vision.
 
We look at technology that underlies Deep Learning solutions, and how to implement these solutions with Google’s popular machine learning framework, TensorFlow. We go over what deep learning is, how it works, and how we use TensorFlow and Keras to quickly and efficiently implement world-class AI solutions and products.

In this talk we discuss Deep Learning, the technique that powers many of the most powerful Artificial Intelligent products and applications. Such as self-driving cars, automatic image labeling in social networks, and robotic vision.

Getting Deep into Machine Learning with TensorFlow

Building high-fidelity apps for the new Windows has never been easier, sort of. In this session, learn the basic technologies, necessary skills, and available tooling to be productive.  We’ll build an app together and you can gain the confidence to get started. 

We’ll build an app together and you can gain the confidence to get started. 

Getting Started as a Modern Windows Developer

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Go provides the ability for "server-side" programming. Traditional choices for server-side languages have included PHP, ASP, and JSP. Currently popular server-side programming languages include Ruby, Python, and Node.js. While there are advantages and disadvantages to all languages, no server-side language is going to be faster than "Go." Couple the speed of Go with Google App Engine and Cloud Storage, and you are now using the exact same architecture as Google. This means that your web apps are going to be incredibly fast and will easily scale to millions of users. Go is an amazing choice for a server-side language as it was developed by some of the same individuals who created the C programming language and Unix, two of the most influential languages of all time. Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson created Go to be a modern language that easily uses multiple cores, easily implements concurrency, easily works in distributed environments, and easily allows the programmer to write programs - it has a very lean and user-friendly syntax! Come learn about one of the greatest languages ever created. You will leave with resources and code samples to start making all of your software and apps really go.…

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Come learn about one of the greatest languages ever created.

Getting Started with The Go Programming Language ( golang )

In this talk, Ilya will describe how Weaveworks team manages apps in production on Kubernetes. The team had been doing this for 2 years now, and have built a number of open-source tools that you may find useful if you were to do the same. The tools we use are also available to you as a service in Weave Cloud. Ilya will demonstrate how you can use Weave Cloud to manage your apps the GitOps way (that's operations by pull-request).


In this talk, Ilya will describe how Weaveworks team manages apps in production on Kubernetes.

GitOps: operations by pull-request

For the last 20 years, virtual machines have allowed us to create isolated environments for running applications. VMs are especially useful for developers who may not always want their development tools to destabilize their main work environment or who do development on different operating systems. In recent years Docker and containers have provided a more lightweight solution for providing these isolated environments.

In this session I'll show you how to migrate existing web applications to Docker. We'll use DNN (DotNetNuke) to show how easy it is to use Docker for building and deploying applications.

In this session I'll show you how to migrate existing web applications to Docker. We'll use DNN (DotNetNuke) to show how easy it is to use Docker for building and deploying applications.

Goodbye VMs - Hello Docker

gRPC is a new high-performance, open source, universal RPC framework. Built on top of Protocol Buffers and HTTP/2, gRPC makes building scalable, efficient microservices fast and easy.
 
What you will learn: How to implement a microservice using gRPC and Java.
 
In this session, Ryan Michela gives you an introduction to gRPC and its capabilities will live coding a simple IRC style chat system using gRPC. You will see how easy it is to implement request/response and bi-directional streaming services using gRPC, and how easy it is to integrate gRPC into other common Java technologies like Spring Boot and RxJava.

gRPC is a new high-performance, open source RPC framework built on top of Protocol Buffers and HTTP/2.

In this session, Ryan Michela gives you an introduction to gRPC and its capabilities will live coding a simple IRC style chat system using gRPC.

gRPC Crash Course: Simple Microservices in Java

Google is (in)famous for its tough algorithm questions, and then making candidates code on a whiteboard. Other companies are partial to behavioral questions, factual/knowledge questions, and big lofty architecture and design questions. 

We’ll discuss the different styles of technical and behavioral interviews for software developers. What’s right for your company? And how do you help candidates do their very best (and why is this so important)? How to keep your standards reasonable, but high and consistent? How do you limit your false negatives and false positives? 

Hiring managers and recruiters will learn how to create a better process. Interviewers will learn how to select and ask better questions. And candidates will get to explore what happens on the other side of the hiring table. 

This session will cover behavioral questions, coding questions, algorithm questions, knowledge questions, design questions, and code assessment/test tools.

Tech companies are infamous for their whiteboard interviews. Learn best practices for doing these at your company -- or even if you should. Engineer and best-selling author will discuss interview styles and what works.

Hiring Coders with Whiteboard Interviews and Other Questions

Always code as if the person maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." In this talk we explore a variety of practical ways to improve your code and application design to make the lives of your engineers, DevOps, and PMs jobs easier. Among other things we will cover: how to deal with concurrency without getting locked up, what does a healthy heartbeat look like, and when code duplication is not OK and when code duplication is OK

Always code as if the person maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." In this talk we explore a variety of practical ways to improve your code and application design to make the lives of your engineers, DevOps, and PMs jobs easier.

How to Write Code Others Won’t Hate

In Oct 2016, mobile and tablet internet usage exceeded desktop for the first time worldwide!&#160; With over 50% of your users on their phones, is your web app optimized for them?
 &#160; Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is an open-source initiative, a Javascript library for building lightening speed mobile web apps.&#160; As of May 2017, there are over 2billion AMP pages and growing!&#160; The Washington Post, eBay, Airbnb, these are just some companies who are using AMP in their web products 

 &#160; We will look under the hood and learn about how AMP optimizes performance with resource allocation, invisible ink, sandbox iframes and more. Attendees will learn about what makes AMP pages lightning fast on mobile, and get up and running with a code demo. 

 &#160; Attendees will learn first hand about:

 1. How AMP addresses mobile web challenges 

 2. How to build a valid AMP page with navigation, embedded media, and user interactivity. 

 3. Future AMP integration with progressive web apps (PWA)

In 2016, mobile internet usage exceeded desktop for the first time! With over 50% of users on mobile, is your web app optimized for them?
 
Let’s learn about Accelerated Mobile Pages, how AMP address mobile web challenges, and build a valid AMP page.

Instant Mobile Web: An Accelerated Mobile Pages primer

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed database service designed to enable you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of geographical regions. You can develop document, key/value, or graph databases with Cosmos DB using a series of popular APIs and programming models. In this session we will show you how easy it is to use and scale with CosmosDB. 

. You can develop document, key/value, or graph databases with Cosmos DB using a series of popular APIs and programming models. In this session we will show you how easy it is to use and scale with CosmosDB. 

Intro to Azure CosmosDB

We've all gotten lost at some point in our lives. Finding out where we are, where we want to go, and how to get there is hard enough for people, but it’s even harder for our applications and devices.
 
Fortunately, map and location APIs are here to help. From latitudes to longitudes, from geocoding to geofencing, in this session you'll learn to go beyond maps and help your apps and devices find their way using location technology.

In this session you will learn to use map and location APIs to help your applications and devices find their way using location technology.

Track Name: Azure

Intro to Azure CosmosDB

Kubernetes – Hands-On Demos for Container Orchestration

Containers Your Way

Azure Functions

Enterprise Blockchain with Microsoft Azure

Microsoft, Linux, Open Source, Cloud + DevOps

Complete CI/CD Pipeline to Microsoft Azure with Docker using Jenkins

Silicon Valley Code Camp 2017 PayPal Town Hall

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