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David Leitner

July 12, 2024

Brainfood Talk: Platform Engineering – It's Not What You Think It Is

The newly gained popularity of Internal Developer Platforms is obvious. And the well-intentioned attempt to reduce the cognitive load we've continuously built up on engineering teams seems too promising to avoid following. But what when the platform becomes what we wanted to avoid in the first place: a bedrock that can hardly be tamed, devouring the cognitive load of tons of engineers and ultimately doomed to fail? Then we most likely landed in the world of platform monoliths, an anti-pattern being on the rise. Leading to large blast radii, a lack of adaptability to evolution, and heavy losses in overall engineering effectiveness. In this talk, I will share strategies and methods to overcome the fallacies of building platform monoliths while creating a foundation that truly accelerates your engineering pace — leading to a rethinking of how platforms should be envisioned.

Theres Scheucher

June 21, 2024

Brainfood Talk: Shifting to User-Centered SD – Embracing Continuous Discovery

In software development, familiar challenges persist: the gap between IT specialists and domain experts, the rush to rebuild older features under tight deadlines, and new systems failing to surpass their predecessors. These issues stem from a focus solely on technical implementation rather than user-centric value. What if we approached development differently? By involving domain experts from the start, validating hypotheses about target customers, and understanding feature contexts before implementation, we could prioritize continuous learning, experimentation, and iteration. Testing features with low-cost experiments before committing to development would become standard practice. This shift requires a fundamental change in our approach to work and progress tracking. Instead of measuring success by the number of implemented features, we should focus on measurable outcomes that contribute to sustainable impact. Continuous improvement becomes the norm, with users actively participating in product development and adopting new features. In this talk, we explore principles of continuous discovery and their transformative effect on software development. We discuss steps to adopt a user-centric approach, emphasizing understanding the "why" behind decisions and involving domain experts. We'll illustrate how a light tower project, focused on measurable outcomes and continuous discovery, can initiate a mindset change across the organization. Join us in transforming software development into a collaborative effort to deliver value to users.

Matthias Kreidl

May 24, 2024

Brainfood Talk: Migration/Integration of a Legacy Data Model – Lessons learned

Many software engineers need to cope with painful affiliations with legacy systems. For the last 2.5 years, we have invested tremendous brainpower, time, and sweat into migrating and integrating an archaeological data model into a modern web platform. Today, we have managed to migrate the majority of the data and are able to use this data on our new web platform. We have learned a lot of lessons, and we think now would be the right time to share them with you.

Shahab Ganji

April 12, 2024

Brainfood Talk: Decoding Compilers – Empowering Developers with Roslyn

Onboarding new developers and imposing programming patterns and guidelines can take a good amount of time from your team. Roslyn, with its rich APIs, is helping us tackle these challenges during compile time. In this session, you will learn how to investigate Compiler APIs from Roslyn and how they assist in creating Semantic Analyzers and Code Fixers tailored for your team.

Paul Rohorzka

March 8, 2024

Brainfood Talk: Going Functional with Railway Oriented Programming in C#

With the latest changes to the language, C# moves toward a multi-paradigm language, enabling code to be written in an object-oriented and increasingly functional style. Besides the support of the language itself, railway-oriented programming is a concept from the active world that can also be leveraged in C#.

In our upcoming Brainfood Talk, David and Paul dive into the idea of railway-oriented programming and what it means to use this approach in big applications. They share some experience and discuss their love-hate relationship with this approach.

José Molero

December 15, 2023

Brainfood Talk: Service Mesh explained – What, Why and How?

Discover the ins and outs of Service Mesh in our upcoming talk with our cloud infrastructure expert José Molero. Delve into its pivotal role in Kubernetes and cloud-native applications, as José demystifies its complexities to make it accessible to all. This session covers the fundamentals, answering questions about what a Service Mesh is, why it's indispensable in today's cloud-native landscape, and how it seamlessly integrates with Kubernetes. Gain valuable insights into how a Service Mesh elevates application performance, fortifies security, and enhances observability. Don't miss out on this opportunity to unravel the power of Service Mesh in simplifying and optimizing your cloud-native experience.

David Leitner

November 10, 2023

Brainfood Talk: The Art of Architecting for Scale

Every day, companies struggle to bring great software products to their customers with sufficient speed and efficiency. In this talk, we will share some insights on architecting successfully for both: organizational and technical scales. We dive into the balancing act between reuse and autonomy, the tradeoff between simplicity and technical excellence, and the key concepts that allow us to create the architectural foundation that stands the test of constant change.

Alexandra Cojocea

October 20, 2023

Brainfood Talk: Creating an Effective Error Strategy

Errors have a profound impact on user experience and shape the initial perception of your product. It is crucial to devote ample attention to how errors are caught, processed, and displayed. This responsibility extends beyond software engineers alone. Join us for an insightful talk where we explore the creation of an effective error strategy that sets developers up for success.

Riccardo Capraro

September 8, 2023

Brainfood Talk: Test and evolve your Kubernetes Operators – a pragmatic approach

We often hear people talking about Kubernetes (K8s) operators and if you ever used K8s you surely have deployed at least one. However, when the time comes to implement your first operator, it is sometimes challenging to keep in mind what matters and ensure the code we write can be testable, especially when it has to interact with multiple external services.

Jerzy Kirchner

June 9, 2023

Brainfood Talk: Platform Engineering: A Bedrock for undistracted Development

The adoption of cloud-native technologies is significantly elevating the complexity of our infrastructure ecosystems. As a result, Engineers working in product teams, have to understand this infrastructure in great detail, to even deploy simple pieces of functionality. This leads to engineers feeling overwhelmed and overloaded by complexity, making software delivery slower and more prone to errors. In this talk, we will explore how building internal developer platforms can help to reduce the complexity of an engineer's daily work and what patterns can be applied to create truly valuable platforms.

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