Schedule

Welcome & Registration

Lunch

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Closing words & Farewell

Opening words & Tech Radar Intro

A short intro to the Tech Radar Conference, Tech Radar Trends, the week agenda and hackathon.

Building for Developer Happiness

Onboarding is difficult, finding information can be a pain, collaborating across teams or domains is hard, and no-one likes context switching between cloud portals, CI/CD Tooling and whatnot. This and other modern frustrations are causing friction in the day-to-day lives of developers. This friction is taking away pleasure, effectiveness, and will eventually result in bad code, people leaving or being burnt out. Investing in Developer Happiness is key, but where to begin? Should you build yet another portal? Implement that new DevOps platform? Try that Inner Source thing? In this session we're discussing all of this and take a look at Backstage, an Open Source platform you can use to build an Internal Developer Portal with and massively improve your developer experience. Because happy developers write happy code.

Role of AI in modern software development

In this introductory session, Dror explores the use of AI in the software development lifecycle, current and future applications, benefits and potential risks, enabling technologies overview

Machine Learning in Production

As machine learning (ML) becomes ubiquitous in technology, there is an increasing need for well-engineered ML systems and processes that enable ML algorithms to drive business value. Enterprise ML has experienced a shift in focus from just the ML models themselves to the software engineering, infrastructure and best practices necessary to support ML at scale in production. Bringing a model from a data scientist's notebook to running live in an application requires robust systems, MLOps and ML governance. In this talk about Machine Learning in Production, Kyle will talk through the motivations, requirements, and design of production ML systems - along with some demo code folks can use to deploy a model.

Making a tech impact as a senior individual contributor (IC)

In this panel, hosted by Lior Kanfi, we will understand the role as an Individual Contributors (IC) and how we are able to impact wider on business technical decisions. During the panel we will hear about the career paths of leading IC's and engineering leaders Liat Ashkenazi, Keren Finkelstein, Shem Magnezi and Omer van Kloeten.

Have You built your Developer Platform yet?

In this talk, I will try to emphasize the adjustments both Cultural alongside the technological ones which any "Cloud-Native Dev" should adjust to in the CloudNative Era. Whilst cloud Environments and Various Architecture styles, such as Serverless and Micro Services, and their effective Deployment schemes, which seemed to have designed a way to deal with the Operational Overhead, by seteling for a blend of work-styles which enable to choose or invest more wisely, the cloudNative development experience has shifted ... Engineering platforms are emerging like mushrooms after the "microservices rain", some have been building one for quite a while

The Other Side of Data Loss - Let's Save Our Earth

Have you ever thought about the earth as a factor in developing a new feature? Today, we’ll observe strange phenomena that occur on earth due to human actions. When storing our long-term data for later use, it’s usually very easy to store every field we have at hand. However, the likelihood for every stored field to be eventually queried is pretty low. Every piece of data we store is eventually converted into machines, disks, and electricity that was generated for them, and in addition to the environmental damage, it is impossible to ignore the money that increases as the data accumulates. In this talk, I will explain how this problem relates to environmental damage, and how we can contribute to harm reduction and cost-saving by managing our organizational data and supporting processes that will help us manage our data more efficiently and correctly.

Let me show you how React applications get hacked in the real-world

Modern frontend frameworks like React are well thought of in their application security design and that’s great. However, there is still plenty of Track for developers to make mistakes and use insecure APIs, vulnerable components, or generally do the wrong thing that turns user input into a Cross-site Scripting vulnerability (XSS). Let me show you how React applications get hacked in the real world.

Scaling Terraform as Self-Service

Today's organization must have its Infrastructure defined as code. Typically the more a company scales the DevOps teams will take it upon them burden but it doesn't have to be that way. Start with the culture and move to the tooling. How to leverage open source to create a platform to safely allow everyone to run their own Terraform? How to stop being the bottleneck to production as DevOps Team?

Argo rollouts: The bug that (Hasn’t) got away

Fast paced, multiple deployments a day with the potential to break production, this has become the norm, even with all the testing and protection layers we have. Argo rollouts, with its canary release strategy adds a layer that has the potential to greatly reduce the risks of deployments. In this talk, we explain why you need a canary release strategy in your backend services, how it will help, and why this layer is important.

Why NLP Poetry is Not Natural?

What makes AI Model such a bad poet? In the last few years, data scientists have discussed the power of LLM's (Large Language Models) to handle any text-related task, including writing poetry, but other than a few outliers, most of the poets the LLM's are writing aren't that good, why is that? This lecture will discuss what makes a poet good from the perspectives of literature and philosophy, and why LLMs aren't (yet?) up to this task from a technical and scientific standpoint.

Asynchronous Data Streams with Kotlin Flow

Kotlin Flow is a declarative mechanism for working with asynchronous data streams that builds on top of Kotlin coroutines and structured concurrency. Kotlin Flows are doing the same revolution in simplicity for data streams that suspending functions did for data values. In this talk we will discuss the challenges of working with asynchronous streams and how Kotlin Flows solve them. We will study the basics of Kotlin Flow design, see their typical usage patterns, peek behind the scenes and into some of the implementation details

Codify your SaaS Apps: The Answer to the Unmanaged SaaS Jungle

GitOps is becoming the popular way to control, automate and manage cloud assets at scale through unified policies. However, the most popular SaaS tools and infrastructure extensions that we all know and love, still remain outside of our GitOps practices. The irony is, that these SaaS tools behave just like operational clouds in many cases powered by similar resources and objects, and they can actually benefit the most from centralized policy in the same way Kubernetes and other cloud native infrastructure does. Security and state drift in your SaaS clouds is no less troubling than in your cloud ops. This talk will walk you through how you can deliver the same GitOps value applied to your cloud native resources––from Kubernetes through multi-cloud––to your entire SaaS tool chain from your monitoring tools and APMs, CDNs, security and IAM tools all the way through your SCM, and literally any other tools that integrate natively with your IaC. We'll take a deep dive through real code examples for how to sync your SaaS tooling configuration by managing them through your IaC of choice, and ultimately how to reconcile these with your git repositories - putting the "git" back into GitOps.

Make it Resumable with Qwik

Web development is changing all the time. We moved from DOM manipulation libraries to MV* frameworks and today we are using component-driven frameworks. But what if the frameworks are getting in our way to achieve better performance? This is were resumability can make a difference. In this talk you will get to know Qwik, a resumability framework, and then you will learn how to use it to build better performant apps.

Real Time Anomaly Detection with Apache Pinot

In this session we will take a hard look at Apache Pinot. I will cover the most advanced and interesting features which make Apache Pinot an interesting contender within its own category. Most importantly, we will look at it's integrated thirdeye component. Thirdeye monitors your data in real time, detects anomalies and gives insights and interactive root-cause analysis into why they are happening. This feature alone makes Apache Pinot a top contender within its own category.