It‘s just great to see how #codecrafts evolved from the simple idea of providing a platform for viennese software enthusiasts, to a conference like this 🤩 Thanks to everyone who is making this possible, an engaged audience, and of course our fantastic speaker lineup! ✨

we as software engineers are becoming beholden to a handful of well funded corportations. while they are our "friends" now, that may change due to incentives. i'm very uncomfortable with that. i believe we need to band together as a community and create a public, free to use repository of real-world (coding) agent sessions/traces. I want small labs, startups, and tinkerers to have access to the same data the big folks currently gobble up from all of us. So we, as a community, can do what e.g. Cursor does below, and take back a little bit of control again. Who's with me? cursor.com/blog/real-time-rl…

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

CodeCrafts 2024 Speaker Lineup is here, featuring: @gregyoung, @settling_mud, @tedneward, @jurgenappelo, Nick Tune & Cassidy Ann Coy 😍 Stay tuned for more and save your spot for May 16th now 🎟️👉 code-crafts.com/ #CodeCrafts2024 #TechJourney #Expedithalle

What a pleasure to finally be part of an #unconferencd again. Great exchange right now on #LLMs, VectorDBs, temperature and all other things you need to know to get started and implement your own usecase here at @JSCraftCamp Munich. 👨‍💻

🎟️ Join us for KCD Vienna! Early Bird Tickets 🐥 are now available for sale: ti.to/dynatrace/kcd-austria-…

thank you @snowded for kicking off #CodeCrafts 2023 with your amazing talk on "From Manufacturing Flow to Ecological Effectiveness"! 💡

The slides for my talk at #CraftConf on "#Architecting for #Scale" are now available. I shared some ideas and insights about how to build robust, resilient, and scalable systems. Have you seen other patterns? I would love to hear them! speakerdeck.com/squer/archit…

Excited to be sharing my insights about Architecting for Scale at @CraftConf on Mainstage at 13:40 today! Let's start building resilient and scalable systems. See you there!👨‍💻 #craftconf

There are some great news to share for the viennese #CloudNative community: We (a bunch of local practitioners) are planing to finally have a #Kubernetes Community Day (#KCD) also in Vienna — stay tuned! ✨

We are speechless! 🤩 #CodeCrafts tickets are sold out due to high demand. We have reserved some exclusive bundle tickets for workshop participants. Check out our insightful workshops and secure yourself one of the very last spots today! 🔥 code-crafts.com/#workshops"

Exciting news! 🚀 Join @duffleit's hands-on workshop on #ReactiveArchitecture at #CodeCrafts 2023 on May 31st. This #workshop will teach you the core concepts and help you build end-to-end systems based on persistent event streams. See you there 👋🤩 code-crafts.com/workshop-rea…

„if something is not on #ArgoCD* it does not exist on our cluster“ and consequently „our CD process is our DR strategy“ @kzapkzap at @KubeCon_, cannot be repeated often enough. 🔥 * can be replaced with Flux 😜

Nice talk about the main characteristics and changes of @springframework 6 and @springboot 3 by @springjuergen 👌

Exciting news! #CodeCrafts workshops on May 31st are now open for booking! 😍 Learn from industry experts Anna Panagiotou, @neal4d, and @duffleit and take your career to the next level. Save your spot today at code-crafts.com/

Architecting without context is probably the arrogant older brother of coding without understanding the problem to solve.

there’s no better place to relax than 3k 🏔️🎿

We are excited to announce Neal Ford, Director, Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks is joining us for CodeCrafts 2023! 🥳🥳 We cannot wait for his talk about meta-modern Software Architecture. 🔥 Save your spot now 👉🏼 code-crafts.com/

If you have separate packages for dto, model, service, repository, controller, etc you're doing it wrong

We're thrilled to reveal our first three speakers 🥳 @snowded, @vladikk, and @neal4d will bring their expertise and insights to the CodeCrafts stage in Vienna this June! Learn more about them and secure your early bird ticket via squer.link/CodeCrafts2023