GDG Malta

Join us for an extraordinary experience at DevLab 2026! 🧪

This event is all set to spark your creativity and elevate your skills. ✨
Dive into the world of web technologies with enlightening talks on Angular 🌍, where our expert speakers will share insights and cutting-edge techniques.
Get hands-on in our Battlesnake workshop designed to empower you to deploy, manage, and scale containerised applications seamlessly. ☸️

Finally, put your skills to the test in our thrilling hackathon capture the flag event 🏴‍, where teamwork and innovation come to the forefront with exciting challenges. Connect, learn, and thrive with fellow developers in Malta. RSVP now and be part of this phenomenal journey! 🧑‍💻

Please don't forget to get your excitement, and your laptop for a day of DevLab!

Agenda

10:00 AM: Registration

Some time to get registered and have a quick chat.

10:30 AM: Welcome Address

Welcome Address, presenting the agenda for the day and a quick intro of the hosts.

10:45 AM: The "Good Enough" cluster: How to ignore best practices and get results

Explore a pragmatic approach to distributed systems with Joseph Trapani where simplicity trumps perfection, challenging standard constraints like latency and consistency to prioritize moving fast and simply getting things done.

11:15 AM: Code is your controller: Getting started with Battlesnake

Learn to scale Battlesnake experiments from local machines to distributed Kubernetes clusters in this workshop with Simon Agius Muscat, covering containerizing bots, orchestration, and managing massive parallel simulations for deep performance insights.

12:45 PM: Break

A quick networking break, with refreshments.

1:30 PM: Angular DevTools: What’s new & Under-the-Hood Architecture

Discover the latest Angular DevTools features like the Signal Graph through practical demos, then go behind the scenes with Hryhorii Avcharov to explore the extension's architecture, tech stack, and internal communication protocols.

2:00 PM: Capture the Flag: Hackathon

Join the ultimate cybersecurity challenge using the picoCTF platform to race against the clock solving puzzles in cryptography, web exploitation, and reverse engineering, capturing flags to climb the live leaderboard in this hands-on competition.

4:30 PM: Closure

End of DevLab 2026, with a quick announcement of the Hackathon winners!