Intro
Attended Tech Mids today met Julian and Colin.
I watched the following conference talks
- Thinking about inclusion with Molly
- Quantifying your reliance on Open Source Software
- Rethinking Content Modelling for Unforgettable User Experiences
- Fantastic SDKs, and how to build them
- Essential Insights into API-first Tooling
- Junior Developer to CTO - battle-hardened principles to live by
- In an API is published and not one is told, does it have value?
- In an API is published and not one is told, does it have value? second speaker.
- How I learned to deploy network policies to Kubernete cluster without knowing anything about them
- Docs and Code, For Coders
Took some notes / photos / key takeaways
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Molly’s talks was an interesting insight into accessibility and inclusion, especially for those with sight or hearing impairment.
Jamie’s talk on Dependency Management was good from the point of view of identifying and understanding software dependencies.
Fully intend to run this and see what reports back from the database. I was toying with whether or not I could run this through LlamaIndex, Langchain, React frontend to see if I could talk through the issues as an alternative to querying the database.
Esther’s talk on Content Modelling I had the following takeaways
Start with user needs, not technologies - A content model should serve people, not systems
Tailor Information Delivery
Model for Multiple Contexts
Support Iterative Development
Steve’s talk on SDKs I enjoyed, need to have a read through his company treblle. Effectively streamlining the process of building, shipping APIs.
Pooja delivered some interesting facts about Postman’s approach to the API ecosystem, functionalities, recipes and flows. Also some info about Postbot, their llm tool.
Jake offered a talk on pragmatism, the importance of Reading, Investing in onself, Listening and Observing during his journay from Junior Developer to CTO.
Christopher and Dalwinder API Management from IBM. Reminded me heavily of some of my experiences with Azure API Management Service. I particularly liked the importance of increasing the value of our APIs.
David Simmons covered the Otterize product which was a nice approach to Kubernetes Network policies without some of the complexity. Thought well that’s going on the Raspberry Pi cluster (when I turn it on).
Lorna spoke to us on docs-as-code including an introduction to me on alternatives to Markdown, such as Markdowndocs, asciidocs which is an interesting alternative. General flow around developing docs using similar tools to developers.
Audience and goals
Outline before writing
Content types
Docs and Coders - engineering is about solving problems and helping people. So is documentation.
Outro
Well organised, plenty of refreshments / coffee.
Some interesting sponsor’s including Version 1 and Goldman Sachs
Would attend again!
Sources
Dependency Management Data
treblle
Postman
Jake - Good Growth
IBM
Otterize
Redocly