What Are Your Top Three Conference Talks?

Just 3? haha ;)

Top 3:

• The Clean Code Talks - "Global State and Singletons"

• GOTO 2016 • Software, Faster • Dan North

• CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"

Runner ups:

• GOTO 2016 • Secure Coding Patterns • Andreas Hallberg

• GOTO 2017 • Patterns of Effective Teams • Dan North

• The Experimentation Mindset

• GOTO 2017 • Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill

• Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on Git

• Evolutionary Software Architecture

• Functional Principles for Object Oriented Development

• Architecture vs. Code

• GOTO 2016 • Software that Fits in Your Head • Dan North

At Fixt, we have a weekly LunchConf and watch a talk while we eat and then discuss how we can apply the learnings in that talk to our daily work. Here are some of my favorites:

• Better Code Reviews by Vaidehi Joshi

• Hitchhiker's Guide to All Things Memory in JS by Safia Abdalla

• Live As A Developer: My Code Does Not Work Because I Am A Victim Of Complex Societal Factors That Are Beyond My Control.... by James Mickens

I have learned so much from so many talks. A couple of my favorites that influenced me regarding functional programming.

• Functional Patterns - Scott Wlaschin
• Functional Architecture - The pits of success - Mark Seemann

On the latter, I originally read the blog posts first. Here and here.

• Just something I send my teammates a lot: Advanced GIT for Developers
• Gave me an interesting perspective on Python: What Does It Take To Be An Expert At Python?
• Simplified my code after switching from Java to Python: Stop Writing Classes

I think Sandi Metz always kills it:

All the Little Things - Sandi Metz

Same with Maciej Ceglowski

Haunted by Data - Maciej Ceglowski

And Scott Hanselman, of course

It's not what you read, it's what you ignore - Scott Hanselman

I picked three speakers that come to mind. I like all their talks so I'm not sure I picked the best ones.

There are so many good talks.

I choose the following three because they're general enough and I think that adopting the principles they describe could really make the difference

Greg Young - The art of destroying software
Sebastian Markbage: Minimal API Surface Area
Dan North - Software, faster

Guy Steele - Growing a Language

There are many, but let me name the most useful one for me: Greg Young - CQRS and Event Sourcing.