XConf Australia 2022
2022-08-16..2022-08-23
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Australia
[XConf Australia 2021, XConf Australia 2022, XConf Australia 2023]
who it's for
software engineers, engineering managers, machine learning engineers, site reliability engineers, accessibility engineers, platform engineers, product managers
topics
tiny machine learning on microcontrollers; TensorFlow Lite and ONNX conversion; wake word and small models; Edge Impulse tooling; software design and cognitive complexity; FinOps cost tagging and right sizing; reserved capacity and spot instances; WCAG 2.1 AA and screen reader testing; feature toggle taxonomy and LaunchDarkly; distributed SQL (Spanner CockroachDB YugabyteDB); replication and Raft consensus; trunk based development and TDD
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: The next big thing in machine learning is tiny | Andy Nolan | 31m |
Claims that ML can run on tiny battery-powered devices, citing ~3 billion capable devices and a prediction of 8.4 billion voice assistants; demonstrates 13 KB… | ||
| Reviving the art of software design | Pam Rucinque, Andy Marks | 35m |
Twelve JavaScript pangram implementations with identical green tests reveal wildly different internal designs, prompting a claim that poor design drives most… | ||
| FinOps: it's all 'bout the money | Mariano Giuffrida, Peter Barnes | |
FinOps establishes concrete steps: enforce resource tagging and/or account hierarchies so every cloud line item maps to a team or service, decentralise… | ||
| Making technology more equitable by shifting accessibility left | Kate Linton, Katie Peterson | 38m |
Thoughtworks rebuilds its public site on Adobe Experience Manager aiming for WCAG 2.1 AA, finds the old site scores ~81% in Lighthouse and audits reveal common… | ||
| Tech leadership for everyone | Giselle Machado | 23m |
A senior developer steps into an unofficial tech lead role by running two weeks of pairing with everyone, mapping personalities, running a retrospective canvas… | ||
| Responsible technology under digital colonialism | Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Joel Davison | 26m |
Prototype called Hua Ki i uses an image recognition prototype and a translation layer to return local Indigenous words, built by five people in five days at a… | ||
| Feature toggles: ask us anything | Luke McCarthy, Mira Kim, Gabriel Sadaka | 30m |
Live Q&A covers practical feature-toggle work: taxonomy (release, experimental, ops, permission), concrete tooling like LaunchDarkly and declaring toggles in… | ||
| NewSQL: concepts, realities and when you should embrace it | Gargi Ahluwalia | 26m |
Claim: Distributed SQL gives relational SQL and ACID consistency while scaling horizontally. Concrete examples: Google Spanner, CockroachDB, YugabyteDB… | ||
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