Kelly Morrison is a native of Georgia with a BS in mathematics and a PhD in computer engineering. He has over 30 years of software experience in various industries, including the television, education, retail, and agriculture sectors. He also wrote a monthly column for "Digital Output" magazine under the pen name "Armand Tarantino". He is currently employed as a solutions architect at Daugherty Business Solutions.
AI Proof Your Career With Software Architecture
The rapid rise of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Bard, GitHub Copilot, and others has many developers worried about their careers, and whether these tools will replace programmers. This session will reassure those developers and provide some guidance on staying employable in the age of AI. We will begin by looking at some areas in software development that are least likely to be impacted by AI, such as embedded software, fintech, legal systems, and avionics, but then we will concentrate on software design and architecture. Yes, you can ask ChatGPT to write a REST API in Spring Boot with a JUnit test suite. But can you ask it to create an entire enterprise software system? With OpenID security, unit and integration tests, a deployment pipeline, management APIs, backup and rollover processes, an SLA of less than 100ms while supporting 100K concurrent users, providing localization for North American, South American, and European markets, handling PII (personally identifiable information), conform to Sarbanes-Oxley standards, and provide documentation? No. And probably not for the foreseeable future. We will look at areas of software architecture and design to learn to provide job security. We will see how existing AI tools may coexist with human guided software architecture development. We will wrap up with a brief look at ArchUnit - a library for testing the architecture of a Java application, and how it may be used to guide junior developers who use AI tools to generate the "street level" code in a project.
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2023 Schedule
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Tuesday, October 24
| Time | Main room (AI) C202 | Vue.js C205 | React C204 | Angular C206 | Core/Advanced JS C207 | UI/UX/Design C208 | Practices and tools C209 | Node.js and Server-side C210 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Accessibility Auditing: Getting Started with AccessibilityTodd Libby | Lessons Learned from 10 Years in ReactCory House | Remix FundamentalsMatt Brophy | Solving Back End Mysteries for Front End DevelopersJeff Linwood | Leadership Workshop for the Reluctant LeaderDavid Neal | Automated Testing Made EasyMicah Wood |
Wednesday, October 25
Thursday, October 26
2023 Featured Track
The Rise of the Machines
A full AI track to level-up your skills and stay ahead of the robots
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CONNECT.TECH 2023 Sessions
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Timeline
- May 1
2023 Kickoff
Call for Papers, Early Bird tickets sales (first 100 only, then prices +$100), sponsor sales, scholarship program all open
- June 1
CFP Close
CFP Closes
- July 1
Speakers Announced!
Speakers announced, regular ticket sales
- September 11
Late ticket sales
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- October 24
Workshop day!
Connect.Tech 2023 starts with workshop day
- October 25
The big show!
Connect.Tech 2023 begins!