This talk by Kyle Kingsbury (aka @aphyr on twitter) was my favourite at CraftConf, and gave us an update on the state of consistency with MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Aerospike.

This talk by Richard Rodger (of nearForm) was my favourite at this year’s CodeMotion conference in Rome, where he talked about why we need to change the way we think about monitoring when it comes to measuring micro-services.

This year’s version of NDC Oslo has a strong security theme throughout,and one of Troy Hunt’s talks — 50 Shades of AppSec — was one of the top-rated talks at the conference based on attendee feedbacks.

Don’t worry if you weren’t one of the lucky 100 or so that made it, most of the talks are available online on…

Joy of Coding has totally exceeded my expectations and proved to be one of the best conferences I have attended this year (and there has been a few already

). Rotterdam is also a city I’d like to visit again — it’s quiet, clean, packed full of…