Men work hard to replace women with robots, but they are the ones to be replaced. This memorable quote sums up Agnieszka Walorska’s controversial talk at Codemotion Berlin 2018. Her thesis is simple – AI is amazingly good at taking on jobs that are … Read more
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The what, why and how of Javascript functional programming
As programming geeks know, “classical” programming languages, like C/C++ and Java, are Imperative. This means you tell the computer how to do something and it does it. By contrast, functional languages are Declarative – you tell the computer the … Read more
Junior.next() – Moving on from the junior development mindset
We can all think of great developers and engineers. Either people we work with, people across the Twittersphere or talented developers sharing their knowledge at conferences. As great as those developers are, they weren’t born with all the skill and … Read more
Se7en deadly sins of web security
Web security is a topic that just won’t go away. Every day we hear the latest revelations – look at the latest scandal with Marriott admitting over 500 million customer records have been stolen using a breach that had been active since 2014! Dave … Read more
Akka and Kubernetes – Technologies give their best when combined
The tech world is an explosive one. So many different products are available out there - and new ones see the light every day. Each tool serves a purpose in a certain area. Be that decision-making, test automation, code analysis, performance metrics, … Read more
The seven deadly sins of web security: interview with Dave Lewis
As an Advisory CISO - Global for Duo Security and founder of Liquidmatrix Security Digest, Dave Lewis understands only too well the risks posed by the web. In his talk at Codemotion Berlin, The Se7en Deadly Sins Of Web Security, Dave discussed how … Read more
Where are the women? Interview with Dora Militaru
Dora Militaru is a senior developer and tech lead at the Financial Times, where she works on FT.com. She has recently led the team responsible for implementing the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on ft.com, and currently works on … Read more
From unruly JSON to the perfect GraphQL API: interview with Michelle Garrett
Michelle Garett only learned how to code three years ago. Today she is a software engineer and developer advocate at huge brand Condè Nast International. Based in London, she works with React, Node and GraphQL. Michelle also organises Node Girls … Read more
Creating a culture of responsibility: interview with Omosola Odetunde
Omosola Odetunde is a product/engineering advisor and senior software engineer, but her greatest asset is her versatility - she wears many hats including frontend, backend, research, UX design, and tech lead. Omosola is passionate about building … Read more
The future of work is female: interview with Agnieszka Walorska
Agnieszka Walorska believes the rise of artificial intelligence signals an important shift towards gender equality. The founder of digital consultancy Creative Construction gave a unique insight during her talk "The future of work is female" at … Read more
CTOs in a data-driven world: interview with Thomas Holl
A friend's desire to learn Spanish a decade ago was the catalyst for Thomas Holl's future career. Thomas helped him look for online courses, but found nothing suitable. A few months later, the two friends, with two others, decided to create their … Read more
The Deep Learning Revolution: interview with Christian Heilmann
Christian Heilman had two main aims at Codemotion Berlin: to make all developers fall in love with JavaScript and to make people less afraid of robots taking over the world. Not a simple task - but he certainly made great strides during his … Read more
Thijs Feryn: Tuning your application (and saving money!) with the caching
Thijs Feryn is a technical evangelist at Belgian web hosting company Combell. His goal is to bring technology to the people and people to technology. He focuses on bridging the gap between code and infrastructure. Thijs is also involved in many open … Read more
Tara Ojo: dedicated to junior developers
Tara Ojo is a Software Engineer at FutureLearn. In her young age, she already had the chance to inspire many people. More than that, she talks about her experience in order to help others. Not only she's willing to help new junior developers, but … Read more
Bernd Rücker: the workflow guy
Bernd Rücker is Co-Founder of Camunda, the Open source platform for BPMN workflow and DMN decision automation. He started developing software more than 15 years ago, and shared his expertise by co-authoring Real-Life BPMN: Using BPMN 2.0 to Analyze, … Read more
Santiago Siri: How Blockchain will save the democracy
Santiago Siri is a founder of Democracy Earth Foundation, a Y Combinator-backed non-profit incorruptible digital governance for small and large communities - an open source and democratic solution to online voting. An advocate for Bitcoin exchange, … Read more
Kai Wähner: build a scalable infrastructure with Apache Kafka
Kai Wähner works as a Technology Evangelist at Confluent, a Silicon Valley startup working closely with the Apache community to improve the project Kafka, a streaming platform to build highly scalable, mission-critical infrastructures. His main area … Read more
Emanuela Damiani: The Lady that UX
Emanuela Damiani is a Designer, who spends every day working for the best browser experience at Firefox: Emanuela has been living in Berlin for 5 years, where, among other things, she is one of the organisers of the Ladies that UX meetup. … Read more