XConf Europe 2022
2022-07-20
Manchester, United Kingdom
[XConf Europe 2022, XConf Europe 2023, XConf Europe 2024, XConf Europe 2025, XConf Europe 2026]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| highlights | 02m | |
A compact roundup of XConf Europe shows a conference built around practical success and failure stories from client work, delivered as short talks that share… | ||
| Modernization: Taming the legacy and keeping the new house clean | Barry Postma | 30m |
Modernization focuses on a thin slice: a bill‑payments journey carved out from a monolithic estate and put into production to prove feasibility. Teams assemble… | ||
| Zero trust CI/CD pipeline | Amit Dube | 34m |
A team replaces long‑lived service keys with short‑lived tokens using GitHub→GCP OIDC federation and workload identity federation, wires that up with a public… | ||
| The four key metrics, Unleashed! | Andrew Harmel-Law | 31m |
Explains how to calculate and run the four DORA metrics with concrete rules: count successful deployment frequency over a rolling 31-day window, measure lead… | ||
| CEOs don’t care about your infra project: Why they should and how to make them | Cat Morris | 30m |
CEOs care because cloud bills and delivery metrics move the needle: average cloud spend cited as $6 million with 10% spending over $60 million, and executives… | ||
| Explainable Artificial Intelligence and Continuous Delivery: Towards the intelligent organization | Concha Labra | 27m |
Argues that adoption stalls because deep learning black-box models disconnect ML from business, and proposes CD4xML — a concrete variant of CD4ML that mandates… | ||
| A peek into observability from a tester's lens | Parveen Khan | 23m |
An invoice microservices system shows daily production incidents and developers debugging with many Notepad++ windows and manual Control F searches… | ||
| Some useful bits: A few solved development problems via Crypto | Katharine Jarmul | 32m |
Covers concrete fixes: use private set intersection (Diffie‑Hellman and newer PSI/OPRFs) to join IDs without sharing emails, use secure multi‑party computation… | ||
| Evolutionary Design Systems | Giamir Buoncristiani | 30m |
Argues for treating a design system as a product and building component libraries with evolutionary architecture using measurable fitness functions: combines… | ||
| Building in accessibility for broader value to all | Matthew Johnston | 28m |
Argues for pushing accessibility shift left into discovery, design and requirements rather than as an add‑on, citing WCAG 2.1 AA, 15% of the world (1.3… | ||
| When the data levee breaks: Managing cognitive load in data-intensive projects | Melania Sánchez Blanco, Arne Laponin | 31m |
Modern data projects pile up pipelines until teams drown; this report shows concrete fixes: use data mesh plus stream-aligned teams and a platform to enforce… | ||
| Why attend | 01m | |
Conference claims to grow a global professional network and delivers a mix of direct experience with large customers across Europe and technical deep dives… | ||
| Why is important to the tech community? | 01m | |
XConf claims value because Thoughtworkers share lived client experience across industries and surface concrete, practical lessons rather than abstract trends… | ||
| What is | 01m | |
This recording restates the conference blurb and anecdotes about shared experiences without any concrete claims, numbers, tools, demos, or outcomes; it offers… | ||
| How Zalando improved offer creation throughput by x100 using Akka Sharded Cluster | Rohit Sharma, Abdelrahman Barakat | 28m |
Zalando replaces a lock-heavy Postgres-based offer assembler with an actor-per-offer system using Akka Cluster Sharding, moving state into memory to eliminate… | ||
| Code as Data: How data insights on legacy codebases fill the knowledge gap in modernization projects | Alessandro Confetti | 36m |
Code becomes queriable metadata instead of a mystery: parsing a 4M‑line legacy codebase down to a 22k‑line entry set and 100k tokens, filtering to ~5k tokens… | ||
| What is the carbon score of your software? | Asim Hussain | 36m |
Defines the Software Carbon Intensity as an equation: energy consumed (kWh) × grid carbon intensity (gCO2/kWh) plus embodied hardware carbon, reported per a… | ||
| highlights | 01m | |
A short highlights montage showing conference atmosphere and attendee reactions rather than technical deep dives. Clips emphasize in person reconnection after… | ||
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