
Live coding. Architecture & Software Design. Quality practices. DevOps. Technical Leadership. And more…
These are just a few of the topics you will hear about at the 4th edition of I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016, taking place in the heart of Bucharest, 19-20 May! We are going to welcome you with an intense program and an amazing line-up of speakers!
We are honored to welcome a great number of top-notch speakers, from 16 countries, to share their stories about the latest technologies and trends. In this blog post, we will share more about 5 speakers and more will come later.
Alastair Smith, Software Developer at Redgate Software Ltd., Cambridge, UK
Test-Drive your Database (Live coding)
Learn how to make database development fun again, by applying all your favourite modern development practices to your SQL code!
Andreas Leidig, Developer, Agile Mentor at msgGillardon AG, Bretten, Deutschland
Are your Mocks mocking at you ? (Live Coding)
How reliable are your mocks when it comes to integration?
Thomas Sundberg, Developer at Think Code AB, Stockholm, Sweden
You find bugs, even with 100% test coverage. Why? Let me show you. And how to address it using TDD
Sandro Mancuso, Software Craftsman, founder of Codurance at Codurance, London, UK
Session to be announced
Clément Bouillier, Software Craftsman at DevLyon, Lyon, France
CQRS & EventSourcing (Workshop)
Learn by yourself the basics about these concepts, through coding with prepared koans
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Stay tuned. We will continue publishing more about the program, speakers and the dynamic learning practices awaiting you.
Thrilled to see you in May!

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