Session Schedule

Architecting and Building Serverless Solutions in Azure

Presented by: Brian Gorman

This workshop is a guided activity to learn, architect, and implement a real-world, serverless solution in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. The tools utilized will include Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Application Insights, and Azure storage. After completing the workshop,...

Building Trust and Breaking Barriers (with LEGO!)

Presented by: Thomas Haver

LEGO(R) sets are fun to build, but who has ever attempted to build a set without looking at the instructions? In this workshop, attendees will form teams and attempt to build a LEGO(R) set without instructions. Through a series of iterative exercises that provide more product details, the teams will...

Have you ever thought of joining the Mob?

Presented by: Fred Estabrook, Chris O'Connor

Ahh!! It's a Mob of philanthropic humanitarians. What will we do?!?! Quick pull down an open source refactorable project from GitHub and set them on it. In this session team members can and will participate in this interactive workshop. Come join the group mind, all roles and experience levels...

A Kid's Introduction to 3D Modeling (Tues)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

This session is targeted for children. All ages of children are welcome (with a responsible adult). We will tour the maker lab and talk about the exciting world of 3D printing. We will look at the printers as well as models made on them and pass around lots of things. We will also go over basics of...

Lunch

Event Streaming, Catch of the Day!

Presented by: Barry Tarlton, David Day

Have you heard enough event streaming fish stories to fill a cooler? Are you ready to wade in deeper and lure out some new skillz on event-driven architectures? Come join our catch-of-the-day session to experience first-hand designing and building an event-driven solution from start to finish. We'll...

Create a Cloud Environment with Terraform and Ansible

Presented by: Gene Gotimer

Hashicorp Terraform allows you to define your infrastructure as code. You write code to define systems, networks, security groups, firewalls, and more, making standing up an environment repeatable and reusable. Red Hat Ansible lets you remotely interact with those systems you stood up, configuring...

From idea to physical series: A basic overview of the world of CAD and 3D Printing (Tues)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

This session will talk about the exciting world of 3D printing with a bit of the history of the technology. We will look at the lab’s printers as well as models made on them. We’ll then cover choosing a CAD app and will briefly cover using curated 3D printer object libraries and different CAD...

From idea to physical: A demo of how to make CAD models in Rhino3d. (Tues)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

This lab is intended to be a fast-paced technology walk-through of the process of creating a 3D printed object. We will focus in on the process of using CAD to create our model with a NURBS modeler called Rhino3D and will walk through the UI and how Rhino uses basic curves and shapes to create more...

From idea to physical series: Additional Castle project walk-through Rhino project. (Tues)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

Can’t get enough model building? Want to make something more advanced than your basic cups/keychains/challenge coins? We’ve noticed we have some repeat students each year on our kids track that just love to build models, and we’ve also run several years of our introductory track for adults. We...

Prepare Your ASP.NET Core Application for 🚀 Liftoff: Hardening Your Applications for Production 1/2

Presented by: Kevin Griffin, Kendall Miller

You're about to push your latest project out to the launch pad - nearly every feature is complete, it's quick, and you're excited for launch day. But are you ready to achieve orbit and stay there safely? * Will it still be responsive when everyone uses it at the same time? * Do you have enough...

Foundations for the New DBA

Presented by: Peter Shore

It doesn’t matter if you are a Junior DBA, an accidental DBA or all the way up to a Senior DBA, the infrastructure your SQL Server environment runs on is important. Many among the DBA community came in as developers or perhaps directly into database administration roles it is equally possible that...

Realizing The Benefits Of Container DevSecOps With AWS

Presented by: James Strong, Colin Detwiller, Matthew Garber

Attendees will learn how to set up, harden, & secure a container pipeline in AWS in this workshop using no servers for that pipeline. Please attend, If you’re interested in integrating security and compliance into a container pipeline to realize the benefits of DevSecOps. We will be using these...

A Kid's Introduction to 3D Modeling (Weds)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

This session is targeted for children. All ages of children are welcome (with a responsible adult). We will tour the maker lab and talk about the exciting world of 3D printing. We will look at the printers as well as models made on them and pass around lots of things. We will also go over basics of...

Intro to Bluefruit Circuit Python (Weds)

Presented by: Greg Huber

Want to learn how to make blinky light or beepy noise things? Or.. Possibly something a little more ambitious? Learn how to code the Adafruit Bluefruit Circuit Playground in the Maker Space. Purchase the Bluefruit project kit on Eventbrite where you bought your CodeMash ticket (limited...

Prepare Your ASP.NET Core Application for 🚀 Liftoff: Hardening Your Applications for Production 2/2

Presented by: Kevin Griffin, Kendall Miller

Part 2 of "Prepare Your ASP.NET Core Application for 🚀 Liftoff: Hardening Your Applications for Production"

Freaky-Fast Full Stack with the FERN Stack

Presented by: Keith Kurak

Can you code, build, and deploy a full-stack app with a web, iOS, and Android front-end in four hours? If it's possible, you'll at least have a fighting chance with the FERN stack: Firebase, Expo, and React Native. This fast-paced session will walk you through writing a messaging app front-end in...

From idea to physical series: A basic overview of the world of CAD and 3D Printing (Weds)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

This session will talk about the exciting world of 3D printing with a bit of the history of the technology. We will look at the lab’s printers as well as models made on them. We’ll then cover choosing a CAD app and will briefly cover using curated 3D printer object libraries and different CAD...

From idea to physical: A demo of how to make CAD models in Rhino3d. (Weds)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

This lab is intended to be a fast-paced technology walk-through of the process of creating a 3D printed object. We will focus in on the process of using CAD to create our model with a NURBS modeler called Rhino3D and will walk through the UI and how Rhino uses basic curves and shapes to create more...

How would you print that? (Panel) (Weds)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

We have a wealth of different perspectives reflected with our 3D printing room staff- including tinkering hobbyists, hardcore makers, and even that of using multiple printer types repeatably in a small business setting. We thought it would be fun to share these various perspectives on how we...

Breakfast

Leadership is Not Management, Expectations Versus Reality.

Presented by: Stacie Bacon

Moving from the role of a software engineer to a technology leader is both a rewarding and challenging experience. In this session, I will share helpful tips, strategies, resources, and insights regarding the shift into leadership as I pull back the curtain on my journey going from expert doer to...

Dark UX Patterns

Presented by: Vitaliy Matiyash

Congratulations! You are the 1,000,000th visitor to our website. Click here to redeem your prize! Just provide your date of birth and phone number to get started. Learn about Dark UX Patterns, how they work, how they trick you and what companies are the worst offenders. Roach Motel, Privacy...

The Science of Testing

Presented by: Thomas Haver

In the past decade the software development paradigm has shifted to “deliver fast” -- with concomitant frameworks and methodologies to support that emphasis – but without proper consideration of quality. So most teams end up failing fast and hard when development continues beyond a shaky...

A Kid's Introduction to 3D Modeling (Thurs)

Presented by: Brian Carnes

This session is targeted for children. All ages of children are welcome (with a responsible adult). We will tour the maker lab and talk about the exciting world of 3D printing. We will look at the printers as well as models made on them and pass around lots of things. We will also go over basics of...

Testing 101 for Devs

Presented by: Jenna Charlton

In Agile, quality has become a team responsibility. Increasingly developers and non-testers are being asked to test and "shift left" but are rarely given the tools to ensure their testing is up to snuff. This often results in wasted time and effort and costly bugs. In this session we’ll cover some...

Regex is for .*

Presented by: Jean Lange

Regular expressions are a powerful tool available to coders in many programming languages - but they’re so cryptic and hard to read/work with! Let’s explore what they can do for you and where you might want to use them. Then we’ll dive into regex101.com and the regex crossword for practical...

End the Stigma: Become a Mental Health Ally

Presented by: Matt Williams

It is estimated that in the US, approximately one in five will experience mental illness each year. The incidence among IT professionals is likely higher -- a Japanese study of Software Engineers found that 32% of the participants suffered from depression or other mental illness. And yet......

Building Android for Everyone

Presented by: Sierra OBryan

Accessibility creates a better experience for everyone. Jetpack Compose simplifies development and can help us more easily build more accessible apps. In this talk, we’ll dive into some common use cases, Android Accessibility APIs, and compare these to the accessibility tools available in Jetpack...

Building Accessible Web Apps

Presented by: Cory House

Are your apps accessible? Can a blind user navigate your app with a screenreader? Can the colorblind consume your content? Since 2017, multiple US court cases have ruled that the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to websites and mobile apps. So there are legal risks to consider as well. In...

The definitive deep dive into the .git folder

Presented by: Rob Richardson

What's in the .git folder? How are commits stored? How do branches work? We'll dive deep into the objects folder, unpack commits, look at the types of DAG nodes, examine object content, and build a complete visualization of the stored content. We'll also quickly look through Git hooks, Git config,...

Let's Talk Bluetooth

Presented by: Leah Vogel

Bluetooth has its own lingo. Don't know much about it? Want to learn to speak it? You’ve come to the right place! In this talk, you will hear a high-level overview of Bluetooth Low Energy and explain how it differs from Bluetooth Classic (BR / EDR). You will become familiar with the terminology...

Common Accessibility Pitfalls: Climbing out, when you fall in.

Presented by: Chris DeMars

You, your users, and Alice from Wonderland have something in common. At one point, everyone has fallen into a hole of perplexity, confusion, and sometimes hysterical madness. Unlike Alice, we can navigate ourselves and our users around the chaotic abyss that we call the web. Shipping inaccessible...

Lunch

Dungeons, Dragons, and Graph Databases

Presented by: Guy Royse

Are you an adventurer? Do you want gold? Experience? Levels? Of course you do! And where do you get these things? The dungeon, where else? That wonderful container of all things adventurous! But, unfortunately, dungeons aren't setup for the convenience of adventurers who wish to extract these fine...

Explain DevOps To Me Like I’m Five: DevOps for Managers

Presented by: Gene Gotimer

Organizations and leaders are often supportive of DevOps, but they don’t always understand what DevOps is and what it will change. It isn’t a one-size-fits-all issue; different environments need different benefits from a DevOps transformation. Join Gene Gotimer as he explains the most important...

The Human Side to Testing

Presented by: Amanda Perkins

We’re known for breaking things and testing the limits, and patience, of our team and our systems. We advocate for quality in all things and we advocate for the end user. But, none of us actually think about how our varied backgrounds influence what we do and how we test. In this session...

Protecting your API with OAuth

Presented by: Dan Moore

OAuth is a well known standard and is useful for delegating authentication and authorization decisions to a central identity provider. As a developer, you’ve given a token when a grant completes. But what happens then? This talk will discuss client and server side code and logic needed when...

Rock-Solid Components with TypeScript and GraphQL

Presented by: Mat Warger

Most recent javascript frameworks bring a solid component model to modern web development, but how can you guarantee that your components work correctly? In this session, you learn how the features of TypeScript can be leveraged to bring clarity and dependability when constructing components with...

Enterprise Observability with OpenTelemetry

Presented by: Christopher Judd

Enterprise applications are complex. A transaction starting in the browser will go through proxies, api gateways, security appliances, application performance monitoring tools, logs, microservices and more microservices. Historically there has been no standard way to get observability and...

Time traveling in the cloud. Time series analytics with Microsoft Azure.

Presented by: Sam Vanhoutte

The data collected in IoT scenarios are often thought of as a ‘time series”. Through this data it’s possible to understand the past and use this data to anticipate the future. But time traveling is never straight forward. That’s why in this session Sam will walk you through the processing of...

Learn to Solder (Thurs)

Presented by: Jameson Hampton

Attend this session to learn how to solder electronic components by assembling a simple LED badge. *** A paid ticket is required for this session. It can be purchased on Event Brite where you bought your CodeMash ticket. Even if you’re a total beginner, don’t be intimidated: anyone can learn to...

DAPR & Hot Chocolate GraphQL | A Tale of Turning .NET Monoliths into Manageable Microservices

Presented by: United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC (Sponsor)

(Presented by Tom Rodgers) A high-level tutorial of the migration of monoliths to microservices, utilizing the latest and greatest technologies. Presenter Tom Rodgers is a Senior Software Developer that has helped drive this transformation at United Wholesale Mortgage, the #1 wholesale mortgage...

`create table user` considered harmful: reasons you should outsource your aut

Presented by: FusionAuth (Sponsor)

(Presented by Dan Moore) When you are starting to build or revamp an application, a way for users to register and log in is almost always necessary but not sufficient. No one uses an application for the sign-in screen, after all! While some teams and applications are functional with a local user...

Launching Your Own Free Minecraft Server in the Cloud

Presented by: Oracle (Sponsor)

(Presented by Todd Sharp, Cloud Developer Evangelist) Have you ever created the perfect Minecraft world and wished that you could share that world with your friends and family that don't live near you? What about customizing every single aspect of the game - mods, difficulty, weather, spawn rates,...

Designing Reusable Components…That Are Actually Reusable

Presented by: Cory House

Modern UIs are often composed of reusable components written in React, Vue, Angular, whatever. In these modern technologies, creating a component is easy. However, creating a truly reusable component is hard. In this session, we'll explore the tradeoffs inherent in reusable component design, and...

Using SVG to create responsive, interactive and animatable graphics

Presented by: Ben Hoffmann

A message is often best stated visually. Traditional methods of designing graphics, diagrams, and charts produce something that retains its aspect ratio, regardless of the size it is viewed. This may work fine for print and slide media, but fails to take advantage of viewing digital content on...

Keeping your Kubernetes Cluster Secure

Presented by: Gene Gotimer

Many organizations are shifting to containers and Kubernetes, and that move means learning new ways to secure their environments. Kubernetes clusters have to be hardened at different levels. We have to consider the nodes where the Kubernetes control plane is running. We also need to secure the...

Exploring the Reactive Landscape

Presented by: Mary Grygleski

As Java is an object-oriented language that inherently supports the imperative programming style, asynchronicity presents a challenge that can turn the code into nightmare. One way to deal with the complexity of asynchronicity is to introduce reactivity onto the coding level (reactive programming),...

Monolith Decomposition and Evolutionary Architectures: How to Safely Modernize Legacy Systems

Presented by: Ben Hoffman

Replacing and re-engineering a new system to replace a legacy or monolithic system, in its entirety, is risky. And after significant investment, the new system often suffers from many of the same issues the old system had. When you combine long development times with big-bang-style deployment, the...

A Perfect Ten: The Data Model

Presented by: Leslie Andrews

Do you know what makes a great data model? What does it mean to be Third Normal Form or a Star Schema? When would you use one over the other and why? How can you identify bad designs? Join Leslie Andrews for a discussion on good and bad data models, and learn what you should do in order to create a...

Making the most of your DevOps Artifacts

Presented by: Matthew Sheehan

With greater emphasis placed on automating the creation of predictable software bundles, you may be asking what are DevOps artifacts and what can you do with them? Well, it turns out you can do many things with them. Artifacts can be the compiled output for your app deployment, or a Nuget or NPM...

Connecting Systems that Never Planned for Each Other - An Introduction to Apache NiFi

Presented by: David Snyder

Apache NiFi can be described as a Swiss army knife for data flow programming. Joe Witt, the creator of NiFi, describes it as a "broker between systems that never knew to plan for each other". This session will illuminate the main features of Apache NiFi, expand on the problems it is best suited...

Dinner

Party! - Desert Bar

Party! - Carnival Games & Casino

Tribal Knowledge in Agile Teams

Presented by: Jeffrey Miller

Let's face it. We don't communicate well, and we document even less. Is it possible to wield information well in an Agile software team? Yes, it is! With consideration, change, and commitment to doing your work differently, it is possible to have relevant and vibrant knowledge resources in an...

Visualizing Code

Presented by: Matt Eland

What happens if we combine the fields of software architecture and data visualization? In this talk, we'll explore what git can tell us about software projects and the teams supporting them by looking at a variety of ways to visualize codebases. Over the course of the talk we'll examine an...

Mission Impossible Prep: Testing with Cypress

Presented by: Bekah Hawrot Weigel

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to ship reliable code. The mission is no different than the others as developers; it's complex, smart, and maybe even seemingly impossible. With no time to waste, you start writing your tests. And with that, you know your mission will succeed. With...

RediSearch: Completing the Beyond SQL Story with Search

Presented by: Brian Sam-Bodden

Do you automatically reach for a relational database for your application’s data needs? There is an unspoken impedance mismatch between expected rates of maturity between an application’s model and its data model. NoSQL/NewSQL and now “beyond SQL” solutions are often met with incredulity...

Maker Museum and Open Lab (Fri)

Presented by: Greg Huber

Come visit the Maker Museum and Open Lab, in the Mangrove room. You will be able to: Learn to solder Learn to tinker on hardware and develop software to run sketches using Circuit Python Check out different projects Hang out and meet with other Makers and see what they are building or working...

Effective React State: 7 Years of Lessons Learned

Presented by: Cory House

Managing React state is hard. Why? Because there are so many options to consider! Local state, reducers, custom hooks, context, and over a dozen third-party libraries. In this session, we’ll explore the lessons I’ve learned from managing complex state in React over the last seven years. I’ll...

The Case for GraphQL

Presented by: Kyle Schrade

We will be diving into why someone would want to use GraphQL and what are the benefits of using it. Starting from what is GraphQL and ending with how it can make your stack much more flexible and improve your day-to-day developer experience. We will look at many examples from our work at StockX that...

Ten Things Every Voice Application Should Do

Presented by: Jeff Blankenburg

In my experience building dozens of skills for Alexa, and working with hundreds of developers on their own voice applications, I've identified ten specific patterns that are common to the most successful of the bunch. This presentation will cover these ten topics, giving you the insight an...

Intro to Bluefruit Circuit Python (Fri)

Presented by: Greg Huber

Want to learn how to make blinky light or beepy noise things? Or.. Possibly something a little more ambitious? Learn how to code the Adafruit Bluefruit Circuit Playground in the Maker Space. Purchase the Bluefruit project kit on Eventbrite where you bought your CodeMash ticket (limited...

Let’s Build a VR Game! Oculus Quest 2 + Unity + C#

Presented by: Lance Larsen

The Oculus Quest 2 has sold over 8 MILLION devices so far and is projected to sell 18-20 MILLION next year! For the first time VR has broken through the early adopter crowd and is increasingly becoming a mainstream consumer gaming and production device! What does that mean for you? Well you now...

Finding Bigfoot with Redis + RediSearch

Presented by: Guy Royse

Bigfoot has been a staple of American folklore since the 19th century. Many are convinced that Bigfoot is real. Others suggest he’s merely a cultural phenomenon. And some just want to believe. There is even a group, the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, that tracks Bigfoot sightings and...

Extending Spring Data and Spring Data Redis

Presented by: Brian Sam-Bodden

In this session, Brian will take you along for a journey into the codebases of Spring Data and Spring Data Redis to help you understand how to build your own annotation-based Spring Data extensions. Whether you are building a framework or a business/application-specific extension, understanding the...

Stand Back; I'm going to try Data Science!

Presented by: Matt Eland

Curious about data science and its relation to software engineering? Want to know how to dabble in artificial intelligence or machine learning side projects before taking the plunge? Come check out this session. In this session we'll explore the types of machine learning tasks as I share my own...

Stop your instincts from ruining your career: the science behind emotional intelligence

Presented by: Natalie Hylton

According to the Center for Creative Leadership, 75% of careers are derailed for reasons related to emotional competencies, including inability to handle interpersonal problems, unsatisfactory team leadership in times of difficulty or conflict, or inability to adapt to change or elicit trust. This...

How to build an Android application with JetPack Compose and Kotlin

Presented by: Aaron LaBeau

The world of mobile development is constantly changing and evolving. Google's new JetPack Compose framework for Kotlin allows developers to write mobile applications quickly by using design principles from functional programming while keeping the learning curve down. In this session, Aaron LaBeau...

Leveraging Technology at Rocket Mortgage (Fri)

Presented by: Rocket Companies (Sponsor)

(Presented by Cassandra Faris) Curious as to why you keep seeing the Rocket Companies at your software developer conferences? That’s because all 15 companies in our portfolio, ranging from Home Financing to Client Services, have at least one thing in common- we leverage technology to help people...

Observability Will Kill the Monitoring Star

Presented by: Scout APM (Sponsor)

(Presented by Scott Ernst) OpenTelemetry is gaining traction fast. Really fast. In the last year, it has risen to become the second most active Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project behind only the undisputed queen that is Kubernetes. In this talk, we will dive into the observability...

A Fork in Your Career Road

Presented by: CoverMyMeds (Sponsor)

(Presented by Steven Grant) Traveling through your career path, you will inevitably come across a fork in the road and will need to decide where your next step leads. On one path, continuing through technical excellence and becoming a key contributor to every project you touch. The other, a path...

Easy Domain Driven Design

Presented by: Ryan Foote

Software development is hard. Even with the best intentions, and the most deliberate design processes, we often end up mired in the “big ball of mud” scenario. Where modifications are tedious, enhancements are fraught with unknown side-effects, and troubleshooting is downright nasty. By...

Confessions of a TDD Late Adopter

Presented by: Jeffrey Miller

After two decades of rehashing Test Driven Development techniques, what’s left to say? A lot! Hear from a seasoned software developer and consultant about the journey to TDD adoption despite objections, skepticism, insecurity, and procrastination along the way. Old dogs can learn new...

Surfing in Maui

Presented by: Sam Basu

You are invested in .NET and Xamarin technology stacks. But there are some pain points in the present reality. Perhaps you crave for cohesiveness, maturity and want to have more confidence in the Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms ecosystem? Let’s take a look at the future with .NET MAUI – the evolution...

Jakarta EE 10 is Coming Your Way!

Presented by: Ivar Grimstad

Jakarta EE 9 lowered the barriers of entry and established a foundation for future innovation paving the way for Jakarta EE 10. With Jakarta EE 10, we are introducing a new profile - the Jakarta EE Core Profile. This profile will enable certification of smaller runtimes suitable for microservices...