TEQnation 201931 Videos

TEQnation 2019: Ramon Wieleman & Artem Makarov – Get Shit Done – 25 tips to focus, get work done and become a better developer

Please excuse us for the bad audio quality at the start With the uprise of smartphones, social media and IoT, our day-to-day life is so much different than 10 years ago. We receive hundreds of notifications per day, our email inbox is getting filled on evenings and weekends and we only see successful people on […]

TEQnation 2019: Daniël Wedema – Why the gap between frontend and backend is closing

Web development has created a divided community with two sides: frontend versus backend. Traditionally frontend developers see backend code as needlessly verbose, while backend developers dislike frontend code for allowing dirty hacks and needing a jungle of ever-changing tools. However, over time the coding requirements of both sides are growing towards each other. This session […]

TEQnation 2019: Brian Vermeer – Live exploiting your open source dependencies

Today, almost all software heavily relies on the use of third-party dependencies. While open source modules are undoubtedly awesome, they also represent an undeniable and massive risk. You’re introducing someone else’s code into your system, often with little or no scrutiny. Including the wrong package can introduce severe vulnerabilities, exposing your application and your user’s […]

TEQnation 2019: Willem Veelenturf & Bob Bijvoet – Building a global, scalable front-end platform

Please excuse us for the audio quality ING is aiming to become one global bank. This means that all of the front-end engineers will be working together on realizing one global front-end platform. A platform that enables squads to deliver value to our customer faster than ever. To realize this goal, all international programs sat […]

TEQnation 2019: Seth Vargo – Base64 is not encryption – a better story for Kubernetes Secrets

Secrets are a key pillar of Kubernetes’ security model, used internally (e.g. service accounts) and by users (e.g. API keys), but did you know they are stored in plaintext? That’s right, by default all Kubernetes secrets are base64 encoded and stored as plaintext in etcd. Anyone with access to the etcd cluster has access to […]

TEQnation 2019: Robert van Mölken – Programming your autonomous drone with Droneblocks and Python

Note: Please excuse us for the audio quality Currently many things are being made autonomous. In this geeky sessions we are going to make our own autonomous drone using the Ryze/DJI Tello. One thing that sets the Tello apart from other drones is that you can program it movements using multible programming languages. In this […]

TEQnation 2019: Rob van Loon & Sander van Egmond – Code2Navigate, from bit to bike

Spring is in the air. With the weather improving this means that the Dutch are massively going out and enjoying their spare time with a nice trip on their bicycles. Or they leave the car at home and take their bicycle for their work commute. But how do you plan such a bike trip? Do […]

TEQnation 2019: Giselle van Dongen – Stream Processing: Choosing the right tool for the job

Due to the increasing interest in real-time processing, many stream processing frameworks were developed. However, no clear guidelines have been established for choosing a framework and designing efficient processing pipelines. In this talk, Giselle talks about decision factors and tuning tips for some of the most popular stream processing frameworks: Spark Streaming, Kafka Streams and […]

TEQnation 2019: Tim van Deursen – Keynote: When technology meets empathy

In a world with more refugees than ever, with new wars flaring up and new walls rising, we need to find better ways to connect and communicate. Tim van Deursen shows how innovative technology can make a difference in humanitarian challenges. His documentary “Meet the Soldier” sends soldiers of rivalling tribes in Karamoja, Uganda, on […]

TEQnation 2019: Angelo van der Sijpt – What every developer needs to know about cryptography

Cryptography is often shrouded like it is a black art. While you should stay away from implementing your own crypto, there’s plenty of components available in the Java ecosystem that can help you. But, what are they, and what to all those terms mean? In this session, we will unpack the jargon and show you […]