Awesome Technical Talks

An opinionated list of awesome videos related to IT / development topics, with a focus on training and gaining hands-on experience. Note that "development" and "operations" category entries can be equally useful to both administrators and developers, and be it only to get a glimpse across the fence (or wall, most often).

(Soft) Skills

• Engineering You [45 min, InfoQ 2016] – Martin Thompson takes a look at ‘engineering’ in the software industry, and which individual practices and techniques help to bring out the engineer in every developer.
• Scaling Yourself [29 min, goto 2012] – Scott Hanselman shows how to achieve more in the time you have, by prioritizing the right things, and doing less busy work with no value.
• Generating a Culture of Doc [33 min, Write the Docs 2013] – Leah Cutter describes ways to encourage engineers to do the ‘write thing’.

Agile / Team / Management

• Software, Faster [54 min, goto 2016] – Dan North presents a selection of his evolving Software, Faster organizational patterns.
• #NoProjects Beyond Projects · Why Projects Are Wrong & What To Do Instead [53 min, goto 2015] – Products over projects. Continuous, not temporary. Outcomes over meeting auxiliary goals.
• Fearless Change · Myths and Patterns of Organizational Change [45 min, Agile Israel 2015] – Linda Rising offers proven change management strategies to help you become a more successful agent of change in your organization.

Open Source

The Impact of Leveraging Open Source [51 min, Devoxx Belgium 2017] – Very nice introduction to Open Source (in the enterprise) and its major licenses by Jeff Strauss, an actual (but recovering) lawyer.

Languages

• Challenges & Chances In Polyglot Programming [54 min, GOTO 2012] – “Mono cultures are unhealthy.” 'Nuff said!

Technology

(Rugged) DevOps

• DevOps Culture & Practices to Create Flow [48 min, goto Chicago 2014] – Jez Humble on behaviors, rituals and processes that are essential to create fast flow of features into production, ultimately creating a culture of continuous learning leading to happy users, fast flow and fulfilled practitioners.
• Even Faster: How Rugged DevOps & SW Supply Chains Attack Developer Waste • Joshua Corman [50 min, GOTO 2016] – The former Sonatype CTO shows how supply chain hygiene and rugged devops help to not only increase software security and quality, but also boost productivity by avoiding unplanned ad-hoc work (i.e. waste).

Cloud & Containers

• Project Calico & Istio: Application Connectivity at Scale [65 min, SRE NYC 2017] – Application connectivity at scale using a service mesh. How Project Calico and Istio complement each other by covering common requirements in OSI layers 3 to 7. Shortly explains the challenges of managing services, their endpoints, and connecting them, and then shows how the components in the 2 projects help to master them, and where they are placed and play together,

Linux

• The Tragedy of systemd [47 min, linux.conf.au 2019] – A balanced view on systemd from a FreeBSD developer.

Tools

Version Control

• Introduction to git [102 min, NewCircle 2011] – Shows what git does when you run simple commands, so you get acquainted with it; seasoned users get a glimpse of what's happening under the hood. Scott is a mighty fast talker, so he crams a lot about git into these 100 minutes.

Project Automation

• Engineering Effectiveness at Twitter [28 min, @scale 2015] – Manage tooling and technology portfolios by applying “Let a 1,000 flowers bloom – then rip 999 of them out by the roots.” See also the related blog post.

Testing

Continuous Integration

Packaging

Deployment

Virtualization & Containers

• Automated Development Environments with Vagrant [52 min, 2013] – Vagrant intro by its author.

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