Drake Lundstrom
Senior Full Stack Developer and Lifetime Learner
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Drake is a senior full stack developer and lifelong learner. He fell in love with programming because there is always more to learn. He has worked on a variety of clouds and tech stacks, with a bias towards Microsoft, and dealt with application development, infrastrucuture, design and essentially every part of a devops team.
Drake is active in the Columbus Tech scene, both as an organzier and a presenter, and is always happy to help mentor junior developers (though he has a long recommended reading list).
When he should be sleeping, Drake volunteers with Rotary Youth Exchange. He designed the language curriculum the students now use to prepare to study abroad, which is considered the best in North America.
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Doing DevOps Right: Trunk-based Development, CICD, and IaC
Have you heard of DevOps, but don't know where to start? Curious about how a developer can work with, instead of against, the operations team?
In this talk, we will cover some of the strategies that lead to effective DevOps. These strategies are part of the best practices and technical capabilities from the Accelerate State of DevOps Report.
We will also show how developers can work synergistically with DevOps using trunk-based development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Infrastructure as Code.
AI as a Development Aide
Artificial intelligence has already started to change how code is being developed, and that change is only accelerating. The question a lot of developers have is how to embrace this wave of change, becoming a better, faster developer with AI, to avoid being left behind as technologies change.
In this talk, we'll cover how generative AI can make you into a better and faster developer. We'll cover how it fits into the development process and eases the interpersonal sides of tech.
We will also give an overview of the tools that currently exist, as well as the trends and timelines that have been announced for future tools.
How to Learn Better as a Developer
Have you ever been taught how to learn? Do you know how to teach someone else to learn?
In this talk, we will be covering what the science of learning says is effective, and how to apply it to life as a developer. Both for more junior developers wanting to improve faster and as tools for more senior developers to give to their mentees.
We will explore which studying methods work best, cognitive load, and when success teaches more than failure. We will also spend time on the soft skills of learning, such as breaking down problems, asking good questions, and when to ask questions.
By the time we are done, you will have new strategies to improve your most important debugging tool: your brain.
Introduction to Cloud Migrations: Common mistakes to avoid
Cloud migrations can improve your products while saving your company money, if done well. Unfortunately, they often aren't.
This talk will cover common mistakes on the journey of migrating to the cloud and how to avoid them. It will mostly be a high-level overview that applies to all cloud platforms (though the speaker has a bias towards Azure).
REST done Right
REST is one of the most popular architectural styles for servers on the web. It is a powerful tool for organizing applications to make them more maintainable, understandable, and upgradeable.
However, many "RESTful" applications are implemented incorrectly.
In this talk, we will cover what REST actually means. We will show examples of how to structure URLs and calls accordingly, and how it differs from other architectural styles and desktop applications.
Finally, we will be showing how to build a small RESTful API from scratch in Dotnet Core.
Stir Trek 2024 Sessionize Event
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