Choosing an API design style can be downright daunting. The RPC vs. REST debate has raged for years, and now there's a new kid on the block: GraphQL. Which is right for your application? I'll demystify these API styles in clear terms and help you decide how to design your API.

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  Nate Barbettini

Nate Barbettini

Developer Advocate, Okta

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Nate is a Microsoft MVP and author who specializes in full-stack .NET and JavaScript. He's a Developer Advocate at Okta and is passionate about helping others write better, more secure code. Nate is the author of The Little ASP.NET Core Book, a popular free e-book for learning the ASP.NET Core framework. He hails from San Francisco but calls Texas home.

How to improve one of the most important and under-discussed skills any engineer can develop: teamwork. Kate will talk about 10 concrete ways you can be a better teammate and help make your engineering team more productive and inclusive.

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  Kate Heddleston

Kate Heddleston

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Many of us care deeply about the craft of engineering and quality of our work. But we're not the first industry to try to accomplish new advanced things. What can we learn from others that have a proven model? We'll look into one area, aerospace and how truly remarkable things were built to see if we can learn things that could apply the same the software engineering.

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  Craig Kerstiens

Craig Kerstiens

Head of Cloud, Citus Data

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Craig joined the team at Citus Data to help create Citus Cloud, their fully-managed database as a service. As head of cloud, he's responsible for product, engineering, and operations for the cloud database. His goal at Citus: to give developers the experience of having the best DBA in the world. Before Citus, Craig ran product at Heroku Postgres and for Heroku core languages and APIs, where he launched support for Python, PHP, and Go. He also worked on Postgres’y things at Truviso, where he extended Postgres to be a streaming database. He has a degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Alabama, which is where he fell in love with bbq and football.

How can you measure and quantify your life with the intent of improving and optimizing everything you do? How can you use tools to automate the boring parts of your life and become a more efficient/effective person?

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  Mahdi Yusuf

Mahdi Yusuf

CTO, Gyroscope

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Mahdi has been obsessed with tracking and quantifying what it means to be a human for the past few years as the CTO of Gyroscope. In that time he and his team have been obsessed with building the operating system for the human body! That being said, they have also been super focused on making that OS approachable and beautiful for everyone as well as gleaning insights.