KCDC grew. There are talks in two halls this year plus dev ops days, I hurt my finger so curious to see how live blogging goes! (It’s going fine. WordPress autocomplete lets me save typing some characters which evens out that touch typing with one finger less usable is slower)
Wednesday
- Preparing for the Java 21 Certification (and learning new features) – my session; link to deck
Thursday
- AI Killed your Privacy Tools
- Loom is More than Virtual Threads! Structured Concurrency and Scoped Values
- The Problems that Arise When Focussing on Predictability over Variability
- Having Daily Standups People Actually Care About (stop going around the room)
- AI Vulnerabilities in 2025 – Some of the darker sides of AI
- Vibe Coding Revolution: How AI Assisted Development Tools are Transforming Velocity
Friday
- Crisis Coding: Navigating Impossible Deadlines
- Amazing Features of Modern Java
- Testing: Going Beyond JUnit – my session; link to deck
- Passkeys: The end of Passwords and the Future of Authentication
- Designing for Behavioral Change – the science behind habit-forming products
- 82 Bugs I collected in a Year You Won’t Believe Made it to Production