Ever wondered what the test coverage is for your integration tests? Why should you even care about it if you’re already looking at unit test coverage? In this talk we’ll cover why you’d want to look at this metric, and how to get started. Examples will include setting up a test server inside of docker, using the JaCoCo agent on a server, and aggregating results.

For its convenience and proximity to the conference area, we recommend you grab lunch at Market Restaurant.

Let’s create a web app with Angular in 3 hours!

This intensive technical workshop will start from scratch and walk you through how to develop an Angular data-centric application with Angular, TypeScript and Visual Studio Code; covering many topics including Data Binding, Services and RxJS.

By the end of the workshop, you should walk away with a solid overview of Angular and be comfortable starting your own project!

Laurent Duveau

During this talk, I am going to present important lessons learned from people that were really successful in their careers, that might help you to plan and succeed in your own career.

The main goal is to motivate women to invest in technical careers and also help to drive it to the direction they want and finally master in their field to successfully achieve their goals. Although the discussion is focused on women it applies to men’s career as well.

Yara Senger

Containers are the next evolution in modern development, enabling organizations to be more agile than ever before. They can write their app once and deploy everywhere, whether dev, test or production. Containers can run on any hardware, on any cloud, and in any environment without modification. In short, they offer a truly open and portable solution for agile DevOps. This session will begin with a short intro to Kubernetes followed by an end to end demo of testing and deploying a .Net Core application to a Kubernetes Cluster with a CI\CD pipeline. We will finish the session with lessons learned and best practices of using containers in production.

Dave Strebel

For its convenience and proximity to the conference area, we recommend you grab lunch at Market Restaurant.

All revolutions are disruptive, and Industry 4.0 is no exception. It poses an opportunity: for new products and services. Better ways to serve citizens, customers, global neighbors, it will bring new jobs, and wholly new business models. Today it transforming economies, jobs, an even the way society itself. How prepared is the Caribbean in the transformation? What is our digital DNA? Do we have the infrastructure? are we providing the needed support to the emerging technological leaders? Are the citizens aware of the changes upon us?

Melanie Wynter

In IoT applications, distributed systems are the norm. Debugging can be especially challenging, as devices in the wild can behave in erratic ways, and our systems can give us limited insight into what may be going on.

Worse still, traditional debug tools only let us see one piece of our application at a time.

Tracing is a method of seeing a full request as it passes through your distributed system. In this talk, we’ll discuss some of the Open Source tools and standards to come out of tracing, and how they can be used to build more robust IoT platforms.

Kirk Kaiser

In this workshop you’ll learn how you need to setup a Xamarin app that is ready to grow and scale without compromises. You’ll about abstraction, MVVM, Dependency injection and IoC, and all of this in a understandable way! Also you’ll learn how to connect this to a Azure backend, and use platform specific features. After the workshop you’ll be able to create your own MvvmCross app and build it out to a enterprise ready code base!

Martijn Van Dijk

We are all bright, young, ambitious, and talented individuals when we graduate. However, this does not always translate into success in corporate America. I want to have a frank discussion about pitfalls that many young professionals find themselves trapped in, due to being unable to find their place amongst a group of individuals who are completely different.

This is a topic that every minority who has been in corporate America can relate to and is very necessary to push our attendees to success. Many leave their companies after a short period of time because they don’t feel like they fit into the corporate mold. But I want to teach attendees that they don’t have to fit in; they can stand out and use their diversity as a strength and as motivation to be successful.

Nik Kemp

In the age of conversational interfaces, users are increasingly dispensing with swipes & taps and expecting to interact with applications in a more flexible & contextualized way: voice.

voice recognition software has increasingly grown in popularity from digital assistants to voice-print identification for individual speakers and always-on interfaces. In this talk, we will go through contextualised communications, why it’s a key element of applications in the present and future? And what bots and voice have to offer.

Rabeb Othmani

It is widely accepted that AI is the future of testing. However, because a fault lies in the eye of the beholder, it is pretty unclear how to apply AI to testing—called the Oracle problem.

There are literally thousands of UI test automation tools. But due to high efforts for creation and maintenance, together with the brittleness and unreliability of the resulting tests, testing often remains a manual task (confirming the testing pyramid). Meanwhile, Software testing accounts for 30%-40% of the budget of a typical software project.

However, there is a way to circumvent the oracle problem and use AI to not only find technical errors (i.e. crashes), but to generate tests for business functionality—autonomous automation. See how AI can be trained to generate tests that are optimized towards several goals and are even better than manually created ones.

Visit the future of testing and see how AI can help us create better software!

Jeremias Rößler

For its convenience and proximity to the conference area, we recommend you grab lunch at Market Restaurant.

You keep hearing about how the blockchain is the next big thing. It will transform the banking industry, democratize access to financial instruments, and allow us to have secure control over internet data.

At this workshop you’ll learn the first steps on how to write, debug, and test programs on the Ethereum blockchain.

The Center of Internet Security (CIS) provides guidance on how to improve infrastructure configuration to demonstrate a strong security posture and deploy widely accepted controls, from rotating encryption keys to ensure networking rules provide protective restrictions.  With CloudFormation and AWS-provided templates and code, the implementation of these controls can be highly automated.  Learn more about these controls, how you can augment these controls, and how you can harden new AWS accounts and implement these best practices from Day One.

Luis Colon

Explanation of why immutable infrastructure is important, how it can be achieved, and ways that developers can setup their production environments using both with simple tools and processes regardless of the cloud they are using.

Thomas Gamble

The presentation will explain the basic concepts of operational analytics and how the Compass solution was developed to communicate the Government relief efforts in Puerto Rico after the passage of Hurricane Maria.

Juan Chipi

Since the dawn of (internet) time, web developers have been at the mercy of browsers when it comes to features. But what if the black magic they use to create new HTML and CSS properties were given to you? Thats exactly what the Houdini working group is working to provide web developers today! In a futuristic, code heavy session I will show how in the not too distant future, you will be able to create your own custom browser features using low lever APIs never before available to developers.

Patrick Kettner

For its convenience and proximity to the conference area, we recommend you grab lunch at Market Restaurant.

Enterprise blockchain is here and its here to stay. Businesses that require trade, trust and ownership can leverage the power of blockchain for fast, secure and transparent transactions.

Join me as we explore the world of business blockchain. We will look into how the developer experience is for various open source blockchain technology that is available now. We will dive deeper with Hyperledger Fabric, an enterprise blockchain solution under the Hyperledger project in Linux Foundation. We will also look into, Corda, Quoram, Hashgraph and some other.

Together we will learn how you as a developer can start building with blockchain. From this talk, you should expect to get some exposure to developing blockchain application as well as which technology works best for your use case.

Mofizur Rahman

Learn about how you can build voice assistant skills for Alexa, Google Home, Cortana, and more using .NET. Use your existing skills to bring content to the latest medium – Artificial Intelligence Assistants.

We’ll cover basics of how these different assistants work, look at the intersection of their capabilities, and talk about how to build skills in an abstract way to allow for the broadest consumption.

In the end you’ll leave with knowledge about each flagship platform and the skills to build your own skills and apps for each of them using C# and/or F#.

Kubernetes has celebrated it’s fourth birthday in 2018. This graduated pillar of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is revolutionizing how workloads are ran. Container orchestrators have been rising in importance and popularity as workloads are being containerized. A recent shift of describing your applications to an orchestrator deployment descriptor to building applications with the orchestrator primitives. This shift is being lead by the orchestrator SDKs. Will be running quickly through the history of Kubernetes and diving into Operators and the Operators SDK.

Ravi Lachhman

Our customers were getting increasingly frustrated with how slow the product got, our frontend kept getting bloated, we weren’t using our network as good as possible and overall even contributing code became quite bad, slowing down our iteration speed.

This talk will go into the following topics, in this order:
– organisational challenges (Working within autonomous teams does bring some prioritisation challenges, especially with so many other things one could do, why dedicate time to performance?)
– getting baseline metrics to prove your points (TransferWise is ruthless when it comes to proving something with data)
– understanding if performance matters for your customers (engagement metrics, what we found works for us, what doesn’t? there’s a lot of fuzzy metrics thrown around on the internet so sharing what worked for us in hope of helping anyone in a similar place)
– What we’ve changed internally to improve performance (talk about our new page rendering pipeline and challenges with React SSR, how we made sure our new codebase will not become one large frontend monolith, what new tools we brought to the rest of the org, especially for frontend engineers)
– How we’re making sure that regressions in performance don’t happen (will present organisational challenges around ownership and why automating regression tests will improve team’s responses to problems that are introduced)

Sebastian Trif