Talks & Workshops

2024 Conference Themes

A defence of technical excellence

Combat the pressure to skip tests, send bugs to the backlog and never refactor

Accessibility + TDD == easy && !impossible

Using TDD to make more accessibly, refactorable and usable sites.

AI is a hype-fuelled dumpster fire that will burn down the planet and get you thrown in gaol

Beginner's Guide to Domain-Driven Design

High level overview of the key concepts in Domain-Driven Design.

Beginner's Guide to Event Storming

Start your event storming journey

Chris Simon - From Electrical Engineer to CTO Coach

Personal journey as an engineer from electrical engineering, to software, to technical leadership, to coaching others.

Chris Simon - From InLoop and LanternPay to NAB acquisition and Dev Cycles

My personal journey in leadership and startups.

Domain-Driven Design & Serverless: A Winning Combination

How to think about Domain-Driven Design in a Serverless application.

Drive Startup Success as an Adaptive CTO

Adapt your leadership, software design and delivery styles as your startup scales.

Experiences Building a Language Server Protocol Plugin

Support JetBrains IDEs with your LSP Server

Hacking on Contextive

Live coding to add a new feature to Contextive

Learning to Love DDD: A Tale of Two Products

Comparing the experience of launching two startups, one with Domain-Driven Design and one without.

Living Ubiquitous Language Documentation with Contextive

Live modelling a domain with Contextive.

Managing Domain Knowledge

Exploring living documentation techniques for capturing and evolving domain knowledge.

Managing Domain Knowledge (Workshop)

A workshop exploring living documentation techniques for capturing and evolving domain knowledge.

Monoliths & Microservices: A 4+1 Views Continuum

An architectural journey growing systems and teams.

TDD & DDD From The Ground Up

Live coding demo of using Test-Driven Development and lightweight Domain-Driven Design.

TDD & DDD From The Ground Up Chat

Chat with Matt and Liam from Beer-Driven Devs

The Grapevine - what is it and how to get involved

Introduction to the Grapevine

Ubiquitous FSharp in Contextive, the Ubiquitous Language Tool

Explore using F# everywhere to build Contextive.

What are my stock options actually worth?

Using Domain-Driven Design analysis to explore a complex and relevant domain.

When Customers Don't Share a Language

A domain-driven journey in modelling and architecture.

Winning at Continuous Deployment with the Expand / Contract Pattern

Live demo of zero-downtime deployments.