Hack'n'sell Yourself

Have you ever thought about yourself as a brand, dev? Are you bored of your daily job, tasks and reading about burnouts to self-diagnoze yourself? Or did you ever think that programming is not something for you? If so.. the answer is simple: it doesn't have to be that way! And - you're the only reason why it is like that.

The goal of this talk is to encourage developers (mainly, but also all the tech/IT representatives) to step forward and do more than just their usual work e.g. share knowledge, build products/tools/packages, learn new stuff to become better not only from the technical perspective. I'm sharing my personal experience, how from a shy guy, totally without self-confidence I turned myself into one of the leading devs and team members in one of the most recognized Umbraco agency in the World + how I earn money from collaborations with various companies because of being "just" myself!

Fail Often, Do Stupid Things, Learn, Repeat

We all make mistakes, right? Do we all learn from them? Can we learn from other people mistakes? YES! Open Source is a powerful 'toy' in our hands, so let's use it! We all need to stop being imposters and just admit we're not ideal here. The story will show which mistakes I and we as a company made in the recent history and how we learned from them (and ton of other people mistakes - Umbraco included :)) to deliver high quality solutions for our Clients.

Living on autopilot with low-code platforms and Umbraco (as a lazy developer)

Are we - developers, really a species in danger? Should we be scared of AI/robots/automation and no-code platforms? What if we can use them to help us with daily tasks and life in general? A quick dive into a low-code platform as a Umbraco developer to automate as much as possible.

Modern Automated Performance Testing with Umbraco

Most of us developers think about performance when it's already 'a little bit too late'. When the client or user reports that our solution is 'slow' or fails every time on Friday at 5 pm when more than 'X' users opens the app... Why???!!! Would we care more if it was easy and simple? What if I tell you that it is? Let's talk about the Umbraco implementations in which each millisecond and TTFB matters. We'll talk about low-level code optimisations, but also the whole setup to let us convert our benchmarks and data into fully automated performance testing setup to deliver high quality and high-performance web applications.

Target audience: .NET web developers & product owners.

Tools described: Benchmark.NET, Azure DevOps + other CI/CD tools, regression tracking software, load testing apps and more.

Sweet modular monoliths with DDD & Umbraco

You heard about the fancy architecture approaches, microservices, containers orchestrations and other buzzwords and though FOMO or simply disappointed you're missing it all working with Umbraco CMS? Stop it now and explore practises which can be easily applied in your existing ASP.NET solutions!

The talk covers the use of design patterns, architectural considerations and challenges, Domain-Driven Design approach and code implementation of the proven solution to make the work with Umbraco enjoyable for all type of the developers, architects and most important - clients!

Target audience: Umbraco developers - from beginners to advanced.

Technical requirements: No. No need to know about microservices and other buzzwords used in the talk description.