Stir Trek

Working on a starter pack of past Stir Trek speakers. Ping us if you're not listed but should be! go.bsky.app/8SjtMxk

My session, The Dark Side of Microservices, recorded two weeks ago at @stirtrek.com , is now up on YouTube! #microservices #softwarearchitecture youtu.be/ABdH1OcqQIM?...

A lot of work goes into planning and running a tech event. Here are some thoughts I put together the day after @stirtrek.com

We'd like to thank OCLC for their continued sponsorship and support this year as we get closer to the conference. Just two more days! Thank you OCLC for your support!

Like architecture? We do too. Check out @jtowermi.bsky.social's persuasive pitch to not build a distributed monolith from back in Stir Trek 2022: youtu.be/YB-MFDq1h8c

🎙️ Amy Norris is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Managing for Failure" 📅 1 May 2026 04:00 PM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Amy at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ Brian Gorman is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Securing your Azure AI Workload" 📅 1 May 2026 04:00 PM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Brian at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ Jeffrey Miller is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "The Death of Data: AI, Obsolescence, and Your Digital Afterlife" 📅 1 May 2026 03:00 PM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Jeffrey at Stir Trek this year!

In today's sponsor highlight, we're celebrating IGS Energy and their sponsorship of the conference this year. Thanks for your support and presence in the community!

In this classic session hear Sierra O’Bryan talk about building a health app for WearOS: youtu.be/zJpm44Bb-Kw

🎙️ Todd Nussbaum is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "LGTM is not a Strategy" 📅 1 May 2026 03:00 PM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Todd at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ Michelle Smith is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "The Low Risk Entrepreneur" 📅 1 May 2026 03:00 PM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Michelle at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ Aaron Stannard is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Completing the Rewrite from Hell: Five Years of Technical Debt and How We Escaped" 📅 1 May 2026 03:00 PM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Aaron at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ @eldert.net is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Engineering for Reliability and Stability in the Azure Messaging Services" 📅 1 May 2026 03:00 PM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Eldert at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ Ken Versaw is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Git Configuration secrets THEY don't want you to know about" 📅 1 May 2026 03:00 PM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Ken at Stir Trek this year!

Today we'd like to shout out CGI for continued partnership with Stir Trek and being one of our awesome Silver-level sponsors this year!

We’re back with Throwback Thursdays with another classic by Steve Smith as he talks about improving data access with abstractions: youtu.be/g6cjCbxq54Y

🎙️ Amanda Lange is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "AI in Agile: How to Leverage AI for Smarter Sprints & Roadmaps" 📅 1 May 2026 03:00 PM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Amanda at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️Jamie Dicken is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "A developer’s guide to making security reviews suck less" 📅 1 May 2026 02:00 PM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Jamie at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ @davidgiard.bsky.social is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Automating User Interface Tests with Playwright" 📅 1 May 2026 02:00 PM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having David at Stir Trek this year!

Today's sponsor shoutout goes out to PowerSync for their silver-level sponsorship of this year's event. Thank you for your support of the event and the developer community!

🎙️ @stuffbreaker.bsky.social is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "The 5 Fundamentals of UX Everyone Should Know" 📅 1 May 2026 11:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Burton at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ @mkellywilliams.bsky.social is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "From Power to Supply Chains: Sustainability is Security" 📅 1 May 2026 11:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Matt at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ @code-squid.com is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "TypeScript You MIGHT Like" 📅 1 May 2026 11:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Bob at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ @paulchinjr.bsky.social is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Better the Devil you NoSQL - A Battle of Paradigms" 📅 1 May 2026 11:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Paul at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ Cameron Presley is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Cutting Through the Hype: Building High Performing Teams" 📅 1 May 2026 11:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Cameron at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ @victorfrye.com is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "The DevOops Handbook: A satirical guide to slow software delivery" 📅 1 May 2026 11:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Victor at Stir Trek this year!

Today we want to thank our silver sponsor, BPS Technologies, for their involvement and support of this year's conference. It's great to see continued community partnerships and we're excited for this year's event!

🎙️ @edcharbeneau.bsky.social is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "An intro to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)" 📅 1 May 2026 11:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Ed at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ @kateholterhoff.com is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "The Vibe Analyst's Guide to AI Coding: From Autocomplete to Agent Orchestration" 📅 1 May 2026 10:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Kate at Stir Trek this year!

In today’s throwback video, Georgia Loper talks about Strongly-typed CSS with Vanilla-extract: youtu.be/5SmaJW_LzYQ

Here’s another popular session from last year’s event: building asynchronous UIs without the hassle by Dev Agrawal: youtu.be/N1wSVaUdV_U

🎙️ @jayharris is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Relevance by Design: A Sustainable Learning System for Senior Devs" and "Increasing Productivity by Doing Nothing" 📅 1 May 2026 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Jay at Stir Trek this year!

Today we'd like to thank Revel IT for being a silver-level sponsor for Stir Trek 2026 and helping the event be a success. Thank you for your involvement and support of the conference and community!

🎙️ Andrew May is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Microsoft Fabric for Developers" 📅 1 May 2026 10:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Andrew at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ @guy.dev is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Agents & Arbiters - An Adventurer’s Guide to Multi-Agent Collaboration with LangGraph.js" 📅 1 May 2026 10:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Guy at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ @sempf.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Making and Baking an Application Security Department" 📅 1 May 2026 10:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Bill at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ Vitaliy Matiyash is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Dark UX Patterns" and "Java Anti-Patterns" 📅 1 May 2026 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Vitaliy at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ @matteland.dev is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Ensuring Software Quality in the world of AI Developers" 📅 1 May 2026 10:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Matthew-Hope at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ Valarie Regas is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Productivity Theater: When ‘Just Use AI’ Becomes a Management Strategy" 📅 1 May 2026 10:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Valarie at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ @thesoccerdev.bsky.social is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Mission: AI Possible – Taming your AI agent swarms" 📅 1 May 2026 09:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Samuel at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ Tristan Chiappisi is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Caffeinate Your Queries: Brew Up Faster SQL with Tuning" and "Unlocking Quantum Computing: An Overview" 📅 1 May 2026 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Tristan at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ @barretblake.dev is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "When Logs Tell the Whole Story: OpenTelemetry for Beginners" 📅 1 May 2026 09:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Barret at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ @lmfinney.bsky.social is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Comparing Promises, Observables, and Signals" 📅 1 May 2026 09:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Lance at Stir Trek this year!

Week 2 of speaker highlights starts today! 🎙️ @ardalis.com is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "The Dark Side of Microservices" 📅 1 May 2026 09:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Steve at Stir Trek this year!

🎙️ Kevin Grossnicklaus is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Claude Code in Action: Transforming Custom Software Development with Agentic AI" 📅 1 May 2026 09:30 AM 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Kevin at Stir Trek this year!

Let’s revisit some of our most popular talks from the past few years, starting with Steve Smith talking about Clean Architecture with ASP .NET Core: youtu.be/Xh79uMvDy7I

Blogged: Key Dates for #StirTrek2026 As a reminder, ticket prices increase as the event gets closer, so register early to save your spot and get the best price!

🎙️ @oldbooksmell.bsky.social is speaking at #StirTrek2026! "Microservices for Pragmatists" and "Boiling The Frog: Implementing a Modern Message Based Architecture Without Anyone Noticing" 📅 1 May 2026 🎟️ events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... We're really looking forward to having Hazel this year!