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by Mike Kalvas

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202404301034 Stir Trek 2024

#source #structure

Schedule

stir-trek-2024-schedule.pdf

Selected Sessions

time	room	rank	speaker	track	session
08:45					could not attend

09:45	Jedi	1	Brian Meeker	Architecture, Patterns	Messaging With Limits: Concurrent, Multi-Stage Data Processing in the Real World
09:45	Empire	2	Matt Eland	Application Languages, Frameworks, Fundamentals	Making your code suck less without setting fire to production
09:45	Skywalker	3	Jonathan Knapp	Architecture, Patterns	Why overcomplicate when HTML will do?

11:00	Jedi	1	Chris Gardner	Application Languages, Frameworks, Fundamentals	Understanding How Your CPU Thinks
11:00	Empire	2	Matt Kelly Williams	Professional Skills, Leadership, Business	Sabotage productivity the CIA way
11:00	Force Awakens	3	Steve Smith	Architecture, Patterns	Modular Monoliths - The Goldilocks Architecture?
11:00	Sith	4	Haley Hendershot Malone	Design, Product Strategy	I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost Products: A human centered approach to breathe life into unused products

13:00	Clones	1	Mike Hand	Application Languages, Frameworks, Fundamentals	The Language of Languages
13:00	Empire	2	Chris Nelson	Full Stack Web Development	Beyond Request/Response: Why and how we should change the way we build web applications

14:15	Empire	1	Kevin Mireles	Design, Product Strategy	Minimum Viable Replacement: A New Approach to Replacing Old Systems
14:15	Sith	2	Anthony Russell	Security	Bug Bounty Recon - Bypassing Geographic DNS with Ensemble

15:30	New Hope	1	Ashley Holcomb	Professional Skills, Leadership, Business	Joe the Axolotl, Clever Closet, & Demonic Robots - Weird Projects of Tech-Savvy Middle School Girls
15:30	Force Awakens	2	Kevin Griffin	Architecture, Patterns	Let's Build A Simple Web Server From Scratch

Session Notes

202405031100 Understanding How Your CPU Thinks
202405031300 The Language of Languages
202405031400 Minimum Viable Replacement
202405031530 Joe the Axolotl, Clever Closet, & Demonic Robots
Sabotage productivity the CIA way (didn't attend but it was about this link)
- The Simple Sabotage Field Manual