DDD by Night September - Hybrid event

It's DDD but *lightning*.

The evening will be a hybrid event hosted by the DDD Melbourne crew and consist of short & sharp presentations of fifteen minutes in length on a dev related subject.

NOTE - We have a brand new venue at StarRez! Venue space is limited, and we cannot accomodate more than 70 people and so it'll be first come, first served!

ONLINE ATTENDANCE
You can join us online, we'll aim to get the call started somewhere around 6pm before we have our introductions and first speaker.

Zoom link --> https://starrez.zoom.us/j/96620152408?pwd=XHoabpTIaavZtca8uQOvaWcaKNbEkE.1

You can ask questions of our speakers via Slido. We'll try to ask your questions as they come through on Slido, but we may not get to all of them.

MASTER OF CEREMONIES/HOST
Akanksha Malik of Paths Uncovered

TALKS
What we learnt building our AI product - Robert Koch
Our company built an AI product and released it to customers! That was an immense undertaking and we learnt a lot about building software and some of the pros and cons that occur when taking an idea into the real world. We'll discuss some of the technical and business challenges we faced and how we solved them.

MERN Cafe - Hari Narayn
In this talk, I'll demonstrate how to enhance an educational e-commerce application, originally built for my book MERN Cafe, by integrating OpenAI. We’ll explore how to seamlessly add a chatbot to your site, enabling intelligent and personalized user interactions. I'll guide you through the process of extending a MERN stack application to streamline user support and improve the overall user experience using OpenAI, showcasing a practical example.

Psychological Safety: The Defining Factor for "High" Performance - Jessica Yu
Why psychological safety is imperative for any team to be "high performing" and sustainably happy, common mistakes that contribute to a decrease in psychological safety, and action items (and resources) to improve psychological safety on any team that you can implement tomorrow.

No Requests, No Limits, No Service - How To Bring Kubernetes To A Grinding Halt - Cail Young
In this talk, Cail will dive into an incident that occurred in Octopus Deploy's internal build platform, where thousands of ephemeral test environment pods jammed up their test cluster for seemingly no reason at all. We'll talk about incident analysis process, the specific contributing factors identified, and the ongoing challenges of the work involved in providing internal tooling.

Democratising Observability: Empowering Teams Beyond Engineering - John Taylor
As cloud-hosted platforms grow in complexity, Observability platforms and tooling have somewhat become an operational necessity, and it is no longer just software engineers who need to understand system performance. In this talk, we'll explore how Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices can democratise observability, empowering non-engineering teams—such as product, operations, and support—to access and interpret critical platform data. We'll discuss how observability tools can provide a unified view of system health, enabling cross-functional teams to make data-driven decisions, proactively solve issues, and enhance collaboration.

SCHEDULE
5.45pm Open doors, food served

6.15pm Intro and three talks

7.30pm Break for networking and drinks

8.00pm Two more talks

8.45pm Close

CODE OF CONDUCT
All DDD events are subject to the DDD Code of Conduct available at https://www.dddmelbourne.com/code-of-conduct/

VENUE, DRINK AND FOOD SPONSOR
StarRez - The platform for thriving residential communities

FUTURE EVENTS
Are you interested in speaking at a future DDD by Night? That's awesome, we'd love to have you! We take speakers of all experience levels and offer training too. Fill out this form and we'll be in touch.

FEEDBACK
Feedback, whether it's good or constructive, helps us grow and improve these events and so we'd love for you to fill out the form here --> https://forms.office.com/r/MB8WGKv9Bi