What do developers need/want to hear?

  • How to use containers, even managing them.
  • Being more autonomous - developers love freedom.
  • Keeping up to date on skills (see containers).
  • Dealing with or hiding from stupid business culture in their org.
  • Getting permission to try new things.
  • Testing code, automation to avoid legacy traps.
  • More scalable architecture for distributed apps, new types of data stores for dealing with new types of apps. [Maybe Thought Works style radar thing]
  • Modernizing old core and frameworks that they're stuck with.

What else do they like talking and learning about?