XConf Europe 2023
2023-10-09
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[XConf Europe 2022, XConf Europe 2023, XConf Europe 2024, XConf Europe 2025, XConf Europe 2026]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Last call for Responsible Tech | Alexandre Goedert, Martin ter Horst | 21m |
Only about 1.25% of the world builds software, two thirds of people lack internet access and of those tech angst hits 24%, so the claim is that a tiny minority… | ||
| Building a knowledge graph with the Natural History Museum to work as a taxonomic equivalence engine | Andy Symonds, Siobhan Hughes | 29m |
A knowledge-graph taxonomic equivalence engine maps US and UK taxonomies in TypeDB, loading ~2.5M taxa and ~5.5M relationships into a dockerized image that… | ||
| Rust, zig and carbon: Hype, hope or hell programming languages? | Desiree Santos, Michael Fait | 39m |
Rust claims zero-cost abstractions, ownership and no GC and already shows production traction (Android 13 ~21% Rust, second language in the Linux kernel); it… | ||
| Socially responsible AI: Practical tools for robust design | Jesse McCrosky | 40m |
Argues responsible AI is just robust engineering, not vague ethics, and gives concrete tactics: use multiple and guard metrics and subgroup analysis to avoid… | ||
| Taming the cloud sprawl | Kief Morris | 44m |
Argues that breaking a monolithic Terraform codebase into composable environment design packages and an environment base plate turns infrastructure into… | ||
| Preventing disaster with data testing: Real-life examples and best practices | Anna Andrea Lagutina | 26m |
Three real failures motivate practical fixes: Mars Climate Orbiter: $327.2M loss from unit mismatch, a flawed 2013 study that wrongly claims ~400,000… | ||
| Make the internet a better place - with coding for accessibility | Larissa Günther | 26m |
Claim: most of the web excludes people with disabilities so fixable changes must be standard practice. Cites Web aim finding that 96% of the top 1M sites fail… | ||
| Observability in a complex data migration: A system refactoring story | Jose Pech | 25m |
A three‑phase migration replaces a legacy Kafka topic with a new event stream for a critical payment service while keeping downtime minimal and avoiding lost… | ||
| Mobile engineering myths, misconceptions and facts | Alexandra Lovin | 38m |
Mobile engineering is bigger than UI alone: there are 6.8 billion smartphones and users spend roughly five to six hours daily, with app stores hosting ~5.3… | ||
| Generative modeling for recipe generation: Success stories | Aili Asikainen, Alessandro Pagliero | 30m |
Thoughtworks applies generative models to R&D for consumer goods, claiming faster, repeatable product discovery with higher success rates and less wasted raw… | ||
| A commune in the ivory tower: A new approach to architecture | Andrew Harmel-Law | 39m |
Claims a decentralised decision model called the architectural advice process where anyone can decide after actively soliciting experts and affected parties… | ||
| How BMW stays on the fast track by building the Connected AI Platform for digital products | Magdalena Kuhn, Anton Vlasov | 36m |
Connected AI Platform goes live last year and powers BMW Connected Vehicle ML by combining Kubeflow on EKS with AWS managed services (S3, Kinesis, EMR on EKS… | ||
| The art of secure software: Zero-trust delivery pipelines | Jim Gumbley | 43m |
Argues that CI/CD must be treated as a high‑risk asset and gives concrete controls: run CI runners as production, enforce MFA, centralize secrets in AWS… | ||
| How will Evolutionary Architecture evolve? | Rebecca Parsons | 39m |
Defines evolutionary architecture as guided incremental change and insists fitness functions (build failures, alerts) make nonfunctional goals objective… | ||
| highlights | 01m | |
Sessions feature practitioners on stage who describe concrete implementations they built, report the exact tradeoffs and failures, and answer questions after… | ||
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