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Enjoy the following series of interviews with the speakers, top-notch software crafters from across Europe, joining I T.A.K.E Unconference, Bucharest, 11-12 May. Discover the lessons learned and what drives them to challenge the known path in their field.
Karina Popova, Head of Development at Link Mobility, as been working as DevOps Lead last 10 years. At #itakeunconf she will include in her talk a lot of real working IoT use cases and their potential impact of a combination IoT with AI.
#1. Please share with us 5 things you did that helped you grow & become the professional you are today
The five most important thing for my growth includes:
1. Education, I have spent almost 20 years studying and it was a key point in my professional growth.
2. Travelling, meeting people with different culture and observing their solutions.
3. Reading, especially biographies, as history always repeats.
4. Community contribution, to share and to experience diversity of different skills
5. Attending IT events, to learn the basics of new technologies, keep track of trends and have an awesome deep conversations
#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017?
Attendees will learn what is the potential impact of AI in the IoT sphere, what real IoT use cases with AI on top have been already implemented and how can we increase the quality of life with the AI+IoT.
#3. Recommend for the participants 3 sources you find inspiration from and would help them better understand you
Three most important sources for inspiration before my talk are the book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, the movie “Bicentennial Man” and my Instagram.
Putting the Science in Computer Science with Felienne Hermans
Most conversations about best practices in software development focus on personal preferences: Vim versus emacs, static versus dynamic typing, Java versus C#. Other domains use research to settle such questions. Couldn’t software development benefit from science as well?
Felienne Hermans, assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, had a very engaging talk at I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2014 about experiments designed and run to answer questions such as:
- What is the best programming language?
- Do design patterns help in any way?
- Is Linus’ law correct?
- Are spreadsheets code?
Watch her talk @ I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2014 edition to find out the results.
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Developers are not computers
Enjoy the following series of interviews with the speakers, top-notch software crafters from across Europe, joining I T.A.K.E Unconference, Bucharest, 11-12 May. Discover the lessons learned and what drives them to challenge the known path in their field.
Csaba Patkos, Team Lead Syneto, is a technical practitioner with 15 years of experience in the field. Joining #itakeunconf 2017 as speaker, he will share more in his talk about his experience of growing up as a team leader, mentor, and coach for the team he works with daily.
#1. Please share with us 5 things you did that helped you grow & become the professional you are today
- Reading … I mean a lot. 40-50 books / year are doable. They can mix in a few novels / literature as well.
- Made plans and fought to achieve them. Think about where you want to be in 6 months or 1 year and define the steps you need to take to get there.
- I love programming and software engineering. I do it daily, with dedication.
- Built some useful daily habits that are helping me to get better. For example listen to audio books when driving, daily reading, daily plan of work, etc.
- Talked to the people I admire and I used these talks as sources of inspiration. So, don’t be afraid to approach your professional idols, they are people just like you.
#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017?
√ Some people just won’t listen to you.
√ Some people just want to force their ideas on you.
√ Some people don’t care about the topic, they just pick fights with you.
√ Some people think you don’t care, even though you really do.
√ Other communication issues.
#3. Recommend for the participants 3 sources you find inspiration from and would help them better understand you
3 books I definitely recommend: Steal the Show, Thinking, Fast and Slow and No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline
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I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016 – Ist day videos & slides
The first day of I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016 was a great success: 18 speakers from 8 different countries shared insights and latest trends on 5 different stages.
Live coding sessions, the talks & workshops received an excellent feedback. Also, everyone got involved during the Open Space, Lightning Talks, Product Development Track & Kata Lounge. In the evening, the event continued informally at Dinner & Coding with a stranger.
You can watch the videos from the event here. Find below the slides from day one. Slides from day 2 are here.
Developer’s Life
Franziska Sauwerwin – Raising the Bar
Houssam Fakih & Borris Gonnot – Metrics for Good Developers
Claudia Rosu – Developer experience to Testing
Alastair Smith – Express Yourself!
Monica Obogeanu – How We Use BDD to Keep our Developers Smiling
Software Design
Ionut G. Stan – Let’s write a Parser!
Microservices
Tim Perry – Microservice Pipeline Architecture
Yegor Bugayenko – Microservices as Chat Bots
Cristiana Voicu & Cristian Andrei – Openstack in the Enterprise and you get your money from it
Condoiu Iuliana – Microservices-what tools do we use
Continous Deployment
Philipp Krenn – Automate all things AWS with Ansible
DevOps
Phillipp Krenn – Painfree object-document mapping with Elasticresearch
Autotesting & Design
Nicolas Frankel – Mutation Testing to the rescue of your tests
Alastair Smith – Test-Driving Your Database
Andreas Leidig & Robin Danzinger – Who is testing the mocks
A few thoughts from the participants
- First of all, I want to congratulate you for the organisation (…) You can be proud of your work. I spent an amazing time and the return on the invested time is 5/5
- Open talks were excellent for networking and ideas exchange
- The Product Development track was a useful and pleasant experience
